Does anyone know whether BT has a mail server that...

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Does anyone know whether BT has a mail server, other than mail.btinternet.com, that supports only POP3/SMTP and not IMAP?  For those interested, the background is as follows.
I've been trying to get my iPad Mail client to connect to mail.btinternet.com using POP3/SMTP.  When you try to set up an email account on the iPad in the normal way, you are not given the choice of using POP or IMAP.  The Mail client appears to query mail.btinternet.com and, if it determines that the server supports IMAP, it then proceeds to set up a connection using IMAP.  Now, I know a workaround to force the Mail client to connect using POP3/SMTP.  That is not the problem.  The problem is that Mail client does not appear to work properly with POP3/SMTP, and I suspect this is because some of the Mail client code, under the covers, still believes it is using IMAP.
For example, having setup an email account that uses POP3/SMTP, if I try to create a local mailbox/folder on the iPad Mail client, the operation fails with the message "Unable to Create Mailbox The mailbox couldn't be created on the server".  So I ask myself, why is the Mail client trying to create a mailbox/folder on the server?  The conclusion I have come to is that the Mail client still thinks it is using IMAP.
I suspect that there are defects in the iPad Mail client code.  But, to test this, it would be good to experiment by setting up a connection to a mail server that supports only POP3/SMTP and not IMAP and then see whether the Mail client behaves any differently.  Hence my initial request.
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Both my wife and I use the Outlook mail client on Windows for our "serious" email and we are very happy with Outlook.
The iPad is actually my wife's and she bought it for other reasons, such as to Facetime friends and relations, install the Kindle app and read Kindle books, use the BBC iPlayer app, and so on.  But I have set up a separate btinternet email address for her to use on the iPad and she intends to give that email address only to certain close relations.  But, so far, we have found that the iPad Mail client is just not usable with POP/SMTP, and she doesn't really want or need to use IMAP.
Edit:  Sorry, forgot your specific question.  No, it doesn't create the folder/mailbox locally.  It fails completely.