Automatically clearing an IMAP mailbox

[Pace|Work]

Hi guys,

I am just trying to write a script to clear out IMAP mailboxes.

We have an email system which currently needs to be cleared manually by every user, but it would be a lot nicer if we either had a scheduled job that would do it for us.

Another option, possibly better in fact, is having a script that is manually run, which will clear out all the mails.

Features required:
Being able to stop it running (if it's automatic)
To clear out 9 different IMAP mailboxes

I did try this myself first, but rapidly hit stumps. I'm not really looking for the full script yet - just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good shell scripting resources...

Thanks in advance

P.

[Ribbit]

You could run fetchmail on them and have it dump the messages to /dev/null...