"sent" messages in Mail

I use my iPad to read mail on three accounts: iCloud and two POP accounts hosted on GoDaddy.
Mail has kept every SENT eMail since I bought the iPad. When I try to EDIT them, I can only select a few at a time to move to the trash. Tapping EDIT brigs up a screen with MARK ALL on it, but the choices after tapping that are FLAG or MARK AS UNREAD. There is nothing coming up like a SELECT ALL. Back in the EDIT screen, there is a TRASH selection, but it is greyed out.
1) How can I limit the number of SENT messages to a month or so, like the TRASH messages are?
2) Is there any way to bulk delete the SENT messages?
Separately, when I'm in the MAILBOXES screeen, it shows 547 FLAGGED messages. But when I tap that bar, an empty folder comes up. How can I remove them or file them if I cannot see them?

What type of mail account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)? If IMAP or .Mac, what are your Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Sent settings?
Please, report accurately what you found. Is the Sent Messages folder really named that way? Isn’t it Sent Messages (AccountName).mbox? If the .mbox suffix is missing, that could be the problem, and you can fix it by quitting Mail and adding the .mbox suffix to the name of the folder.

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