How do I delete mailboxes in Mail ios8?

I have been trying to complete some housekeeping on the iPad Mini 2 with iOS 8.1.1. The first problem was to  create Folders to stick the e mails in. This I managed to do via my ISP, though quite a tortuous route to take. In so doing, I now find there are a number of Folders in my .me/.cloud addresses that defy deletion.
Every time I go through the accepted route of Mail/Accounts/Account /Edit/Delete Mailbox Mail shuts down and the Mailbox is still there.
I have been back to my ISP to get help from him since Apple were singularly unhelpful when asking for help on creating the Folders in the first place, I thought it politic to go to the ISP first! They have yet to come back to me.
In trying to get rid of the non-required Folders, I went on to my Web Mail account and deleted all the folders I created earlier in the vane belief that if I then Reset the iPad, there would be nothing there for it to pick up and the non-required folders would no longer be synced on to the iPad. This worked fine for the normal e mail address, but the .me/,cloud (Apple) address there are three folders that will not be deleted.
What do I have to do to get them off the iPad? Do I have to get rid of the Mail App and invest in some other Mail App to get rid of the problem? It seems that looking on the internet for an answer, there are a lot of people with the same problem, which seems to stem from iOS 8.1.1.
Hope some one can help me resolve this very annoying glitch.
Cheers
altv

It seems that after a goodly while playing with this problem, the answer seems to be to do away with the IMAP account and use the PoP account. This has given no superfluous Boxes and seems to work as far as sending and receiving e mails is concerned. What it won't is allow me to create folders so that I can keep them in some semblance of order. It seems to me that I will have to maintain my e mails on the iMac and forget anything other than basic communication on the iPad. A real waste of money for something that can't even do the basics right! 'Twas ever thus.
Cheers
altv

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