kj wrote: > > 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? As already said, this calls rm for every file. Another alternative is with newer versions of find: find . -type f -exec rm {} \+ This calls rm for as many files as fit on the command line. But probably "rm -rf" is the fastest. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker.