[log in to unmask] said: > 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