According to Russell Nelson:
>
> Curtis Generous writes:
> > What is the mailbox ordering scheme that is returned by applications
> > as qmail-pop3d when using MAILDIR?
> >
> > For example, if when using the 'LIST' or 'UIDL' command to POP,
> > in what sequence will files be listed? In cronological order, or
> > file creation time, or ???? Do files in ~/Maildir/cur come before
> > ~/Maildir/new?
>
> File modification time.
Across both /cur and /new? What if files in /new are older than in /cur?
And how does it mitigate between two files with same modification time?
Thanks,
--curtis
