Local Mailboxes on iPhone

Wondering if anyone else has this going on and if there is a solution.
I own an iPhone 4 operating on iOS 6.0.1 (10A523)
Whenever I select emails from the common Inbox then click on the "move" button, the iPhone mail app presents me with a list of mailboxes - most of which are either draft, set or deleted messages folders from accounts I have already deleted from my iPhone. All folders are empty. The last is a folder that appears named x-apple-transient-drafts that appears to have content.
I was wondering if anyone here knows of a way to purge these wayward items from the iPhone.

I have Deleted Messages under Advanced set to Never, but do not have anything available to change about Server settings under Incoming settings - just SSL, Authentication, IMAP Path Prefix, and Server Port.
As already provided, this is an IMAP account.
All server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account. You can select to store the account's Drafts, Trash, and Sent mailboxes on the server or locally, but the account's Inbox mailbox is stored on the server and cannot be changed.
When deleting a message from the account's Inbox mailbox with an IMAP account, the message is removed from the account's Inbox mailbox on the server and transferred to the account's Trash mailbox. This will be reflected automatically when checking the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client used on your computer for accessing the account since all server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account.
If you have the account's Trash mailbox set to be stored locally, you can try transferring the messages from the account's Trash mailbox back to the account's Inbox mailbox so these messages will be available when accessing the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client on your computer.

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