Is "subdirs 20" usefull? Does changing or deleting this parameter influences performance and if

Let's say I delete the parameter on a functioning mailserver and I do "imsimta refresh". What happens to the directories and their content? Do they get processed? Do the 20 subdirectories get deleted automatically? Problem is I don't have a testmailserver.

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Setting more subdirs on a channel is often useful. The exact number of subdirs to use is dependent on your site and what the typical amount of queued mail will be.

The MTA has to scan the queue directories to find out what messages are queued - and just scanning a directory with more than 1000 files will not perform well. So you should always set the "subdirs" parameter so that you will never have more than 1000 files in each subdirectory.

Busy large ISP's will typically set this to 100 for many queues, as they may have tens of thousands of messages queued at any one time.

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