How can I stop iPad setting up email account automatically

My email is my domain on Google apps.
When I add it as an imap account, iOS tries to set up automatically and somewhere is finding a really old mail server name from about five years ago before we switched to google apps.
So when it tries to send it is attempting to use this old server putting [email protected]@oldserver.com.
I can't stop it, and it is not listed in the smtp server list in settings, so I can't delete it.
Deeply frustrating as I can't send mail from my iPad. Can anyone help?

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