Hello Bennett, > I'm not completely clear on what this 'rm script' would be. Some > sort of mutt macro? Or are you saying that gdbm is Ok with multiple > concurrent writers --- mutt and an external db cleaner? I am thinking about the following: (faui03) [~] crontab -l 0 0 1 * * rm /tmp/sithglan-hcache But, if you like to, I could of course write a maildir-header cache wiper, too. Thomas