Trouble deleting mail accounts in IOS 5

I upgraded to IOS 5 and imported all my mail accounts even though I don't use them all. I am not able to delete a Mac.com account. Every time I try to delete it in the Settings section, it suddenly crashes to the home screen. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi,
I had the same problem at first, but fixed it. Read my post and see if your problem was the same as mine. If it was, there's an easy fix!
http://take-a-tech-tip.blogspot.com/2011/10/ios-5-notifications-center.html
Hope it helps!

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In Mavericks (i.e. on a Mac):
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I called Apple support and they managed to solve my problem
They gave me the following instructions:
1. Go to appleid.apple.com, press "Manage your Apple-ID" and write in your current apple-id and password.
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Welcome to the Support Communities! I'm sorry to hear you are so frustrated with your email on the iPhone. What email account are you trying to delete? You should be able to delete the account just like you did in iOS 7.
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I have been messing around with my Thunderbird data, so this problem is of my own making I think.
I deleted an email account using my provider setup area. This was an email account I had set up at the start when joining this provider and contained only test messages etc. and so was of no further use.
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After all of the above, I discovered that a spurious folder had been created under the INBOX of my main account, called 'New%20Folder=0' which I read as New Folder-0. I don't know at what point in the above that this folder appeared, but I *think* I must have dragged/dropped one of my folder moves on the INBOX instead of the account name field.
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