Delete 4 million files

[kj <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

Hi guys,

This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better way.

I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in.  The 
result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed.

Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
but this is going at about 700,000 per day.  Would simply doing an rm 
-rf on the Maildir be quicker?  Or is there a better way?

Thanks

--kj