Recreate user account in Workgroup Manager, empty mailbox

We have OS X 10.3.8 Server version. Postfix mail server.
We have a user/account with email problems and a huge mailbox. He (user: gordon) had over 16000 emails in his mailbox (/var/spool/imap/user/gordon). All other mail users on this server work fine, including newly created user accounts.
Our solutions was to try and delete all mail from his mailbox via Terminal. This did not seem to decrease the size of his mailbox. Our next idea was to delete this user in Workgroup Manager and then re-created this user. Hoping to created an new mail setup and empty mailbox. This idea failed aswell.
How does one basically purge an old account/user in Workgroup Manager, and then, recreate that same user name and effectively recreate the user with a new account, including a new/empty mailbox?
Mac OS X (10.3.8)

cyradm is not part of 10.3.x
To use it you would have to install it first. See here:
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040814204411280&query=cyradm
And then follow the instructions given beforehand.
Having said that, your issue can be resolved differently. You deleted all mail manually in the file system (not a good idea, but what is done is done). So the mail is actually gone. What you are seing is Cyrus' index. Since you deleted manually the index didn't get updated. To get rid of the problem either reconstruct that users mailbox throgh Server Admin - > Mail or alternatively run:
sudo -u cyrus reconstruct -r user/gordon (assuming that's the user's name)
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