Remove mail attachments on iPhone

Hi, I have a problem with mail attachments on my iPhone.
They have grown to be 500+ mb now and I'd like to get rid of them in one go.
Is there any way to do this?
And maybe also a setting that prevents all those attachments from being stored on my phone?
Thanks

No, you'll have to delete them one at a time.

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