Mail.app - Delete all messages in mailboxes

I have a POP account whose mailboxes show up under ON MY MAC in Mail.app. Say, I have the following mailbox and its submailboxes:
Mailbox1
submailbox1 (containing 50 messages)
submailbox2 (containing 20 messages)
submailbox100 (containing 34 messages)
It is tedious, to say the least, to go into each of the 100 submailboxes, select all messages, and delete them. Is there a way (e.g., Terminal command) to delete all messages in these submailboxes at once?

Brett,
I'm assuming you're running Exchange on-box with Unity as voice mail only solution? You can still get to OWA from the Unity server. Or, if Exchange is off-box, you can still get to OWA from on the Exchange server.
Just type in localhost/exchange this should bring up the OWA interface for you.
Brad

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