I've never tried this, but 2 million items in a folder is probably going to be useless
(unusable) even if Windows lets you create that many. I'd be breaking up the mailing
into chunks especially until iMS 2.5 comes out. A quick look didn't reveal an actual
limit of files per folder on NTFS, but I did come across some copy/pastable words of
wisdom on MSDN site:
"If you use large numbers of files in an NTFS folder (300,000 or more), disable
short-file name generation, especially if the first six characters of the long file
names are similar."
and
"Avoid putting a large number of files into a folder if you use programs that create,
delete, open, or close files quickly or frequently. The better solution is to
logically separate the files into folders so that you can distribute the workload on
multiple folders at a time.
If there is no way to logically separate the files into folders, put all the files
into one folder, and then disable 8.3 file name generation. "
Also if you're really sending a million mails I would recommend creating the mail
files on one machine and then moving them over into the iMS POST queue on a different
machine (or generate all the mails first before any sending).
Cheers,
-Max
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