I want to move my Mail.app filtering rules from my old 10.6 machine to a fresh 10.8 install. I've seen people talking about moving these by copying over MessageRules.plist, but I haven't seen anyone address whether these are compatible between 10.6 and 10.8. Thanks!
MacOS – Migrating Mail.app rules from 10.6 to 10.8
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Best Answer
I copied all of the user-created
<dict>...</dict>items from my oldMessageRules.plistand added them to:When I launched Mail.app again, they were in my rules, but disabled. One click on each and they ran fine.
Note: Simply replacing the entire set of
<dict>...</dict>items inUnsyncedRules.plistwill not work. You must add them into the current set of items in order for it to work properly.