Create MailBox Folders In My Comcast POP Account

I have a Comcast POP Email account on my iPhone, is there a way to create more than three folders for this account?  The only three that I have is:
Inbox
Sent
Trash
Is that all that I can create?  Everything works within those mailboxes, but I'd like to create at least one more for Saved Mail.  I have several mailboxes on my desktop computer running Microsoft Outlook as my mail program.

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    In short, no.  With a pop account, you simply get a dump from the mail providers server.  And the built in mail program does not support additional folders.
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