JayDee
Myr-myr:
Measure twice, cut once. Ken knows Apple’s and presumably iPads by now. Ipads only store information on them that is downloaded from iTunes, or a remote server. I find it hard to believe your remote mail server was holding 60K emails. My iPad stores around 200, deleting some as they age out. For instance, I turned my brother in laws Mail program onto his gmail account and it downloaded 300-400 old emails. Now, that could be all he’d ever written, but still not 60K (You must send a lot of emails).
I could not find a setting on iOS 7.0.3 that limits the retention of emails (unlike earlier devices).
Sometimes, when an iPad misbehaves, doing a hard power off/on will make it less confused. This is where you hold down the home button until a red slider says swipe to power off. This will not “wipe” the iPad just give it a fresh start when you turn it back on using the button on the upper right-hand side.
Or wait until you talk with Ken.