Script to delete email by folder

delete-email.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

## http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3180891/imap-deleting-messages
import imaplib
m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.company.com')
m.login("your-user","your-password")
m.select('mail/dir/sub-dir') # this folder will be clean up
typ, data = m.search(None, 'ALL')
for num in data[0].split():
   #print num
   m.store(num, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
m.expunge()
m.close()
m.logout()