Deleting emails from a mailbox

So I've used in the past on Exchange 2010 search-mailbox to delete items from mailboxes. Either I never noticed the 10,000 item limitation in those, or this was introduced in Exchange 2013.
So how do I make sure to delete an email from a mailbox that has well over 10,000 items?
I'm looking at new-mailboxsearch and the In-Place EDiscovery & Hold, but I can't find any option to delete items using those, in other words they are 100% useless for this purpose.
And search-mailbox being limited to 10,000 makes it pretty much useless for a large number of my mailboxes too.
So what am I suppose to do as an admin asked to delete those pesky incorrectly sent emails?

Hi,
If the deleted items is more than 10000 items, we can run the Search-Mailbox cmdlet multiple times to delete it.
Maybe we can contact the Script Center forum to create a script to run the Search-Mailbox several times to delete over 10000 items:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/home?category=scripting
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