Quota limit reached? Delete Mac Mail messages?

I'm a bit confused (make that VERY confused). I keep getting this "Quota limit reached" message. Apple iPhone rep tells me that I have to start deleting my 25,000 Mac Mail messages.
Thing is, I don't have time to delete even half those messages. If I have to, I will but is there another easier way?
I don't really need Mac Mail on my iPhone anyway. I'd like to just delete it all together buy iPhone Apple rep said that I can't because it's synced?
I don't get it.
Please help! Whatever answer anyone gives me, please don't make it too "techie" --as in assuming I know more than I do.
BTW, I am still using 10.5.8 on m Mac Book Pro. Making an appointment today with Apple store to get this done. Can't do it myself as I have some tech glitches that may cause problems if I try to do do this--so I need professonal "Genius Bar" help.
Just thought I would add that in case it's relevant to this process.

Go to iCloud.com and click on mail. Then you can delete multiple messages quickly. All you have to do is hold your shift key and your up or down arrow keys to select multiple messages. If you have important ones, you can select up to those ones and delete the junk.
Or, you can buy iCloud storage. Which is 20 bucks for 10 gigabytes.

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