Hello Samuel, with mdbox as Maildir no direct file operations should beperforms. For empty mailboxes that will ever happen, the "doveadm mailbox delete" deletes the emails, if required in the mailbox. Hardy Am 21.03.2015 um 11:48 schrieb Samuel Williams: > Thanks Hardy. I have 1600 folders to delete.. in the end I did find -type d > -name "* 1" -exec rm -r {} \; >