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> We noticed that there was no particular order in how those files were
> being acted on. That is, we noticed newly arriving messages being
> processed before the older mail was. This seems "wrong" to us (just
> our opinion).
They are processed in physical directory order. I.e. the order
of the entries in directory when read as a file. The directory
is not kept in collating order. ls and such sort things before
they display them. When a new file comes in it's put in the
first available directory slot.
Glenn