Old issue...How can you delete multiple emails?

You would have thought that Apple would have given us an easy way to delete multiple emails by now.
I'm trying to clean up my wife's 16GB iPad with thousands of old emails and tried every old trick. ( Holding down the move after selecting one etc. it crashes now in iOS 8 )
I read that you can go to Messages preferences and select how long you want to keep messages, Never, (1 month etc...)
but is that text Messages or Mail also? But how do you get rid of the old ones.  I've cleaned out the server, thinking that the Cloud would pick that move up, but that didn't work either.
The old iOS version allowed in Preferences to select the Maximum amount of emails you want on your iPad ( ala 100 etc ) iO7 killed that move.
Is this a simple but stupid oversight on Apples part OR is it intentional to get me to buy a Larger GB iPad for my wife next time!
Common, lets rally around this one... it's way overdue!

Instead of using the iOS Mail app to do this massive cleanup, you might go to Yahoo or GMail or other services, and do it on the web. For the clean up process for large amounts of mail, that might work better. Once it's under control though, then it's pretty easy to maintain from the iOS Mail app. It's just a matter of checking it once every few days or so and keeping your "housekeeping" done ... :-) ...

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