Retrieving Old Mail on iPad

Thanks very much for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, Settings\Passwords and Accounts\ Mail Days to Sync doesn't seem to be a listed feature for any of the 7 email accounts I have under Settings\Passwords and Accounts on the iPad. These accounts include hotmail, gmail, yahoo and own domain as well as iCloud. Am I missing something?

In passing, I noticed 'Discarded Messages' set to go to Delete. Just wondered if that's relevant. Not sure how a 'Discarded Message' is defined - is that a message that's Read, Saved and/or Deleted?

Thanks for your interest.

I have both IMAP and POP accounts amongst the 7 on the iPad. I can see the POP accounts are affected on the iPad although their older emails survive on my Mac.

On the iPad, one POP account (ISP based) truncates in July and another (Yahoo) in April; although earlier messages were certainly not deleted by me.

Do you think the earlier messages may be archived on the Cloud somewhere?

BTW, should I take it that by "Discarded", Apple means Deleted, maybe plus Junked?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Well thanks for trying anyway.

I'll ask Apple and post if they have an answer that works ...