If you are struggling with millions of SPAM messages like me, you should rather use “find” instead of “rm” while deleting files in a folder. This method is tested to be faster than rm -rf: switch to the folder containing files, in my case: cd /var/spool/exim/ ans start deleting files by typing: find . -maxdepth […]
I was trying to delete a client’s all bounce emails that was caused by sending spam and rm -rf didn’t help me at this point first of all try to look at the default value of argument list for your server: type getconf ARG_MAX 2621440 And you can sipmly increase this value by typing: ulimit […]