Comments on: Exporting rules from Mail.app http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/ Ugo Cei's Weblog Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:29:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dan Efergan http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-481 Dan Efergan Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:42:03 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-481 (Sorry, the above tag's got cleaned out of the comments parser, so the posts not so useful anymore. But compare the two files, and you'll see the addition needed) (Sorry, the above tag’s got cleaned out of the comments parser, so the posts not so useful anymore. But compare the two files, and you’ll see the addition needed)

]]> By: Dan Efergan http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-480 Dan Efergan Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:40:27 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-480 When I checked the two plist files (MessageSorting.plist (10.3 earlier) and MessageRules.plist (10.4) there was information about the rules. Looking at the two sets the only difference I could see was the addition of an extra data set. By adding this the latest version seemed to import the rules fine. You need to wrap the content in a new tag with two new . The header was updated to (two new lines at the bottom): rules And then at the bottom of the file, version 18 replaced the single: Just noticed the date's on this post, so I'm guessing people have already sorted this one. But in case it's useful to anyone. When I checked the two plist files (MessageSorting.plist (10.3 earlier) and MessageRules.plist (10.4) there was information about the rules.

Looking at the two sets the only difference I could see was the addition of an extra data set. By adding this the latest version seemed to import the rules fine.

You need to wrap the content in a new tag with two new .

The header was updated to (two new lines at the bottom):

rules

And then at the bottom of the file,
version
18

replaced the single:

Just noticed the date’s on this post, so I’m guessing people have already sorted this one. But in case it’s useful to anyone.

]]> By: Barrett http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-195 Barrett Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:26:28 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-195 The MessageSorting.plist and MessageRules.plist do not seem to include any of the filter rules. The suggestions above do not work. The MessageSorting.plist and MessageRules.plist do not seem to include any of the filter rules. The suggestions above do not work.

]]> By: ugo http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-163 ugo Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:27:29 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-163 There's a MessageSorting.plist file in Panther whose contents seem to be a subset of Tiger's MessageRules.plist. I might try to do a copy&paste operation and see if it works. There’s a MessageSorting.plist file in Panther whose contents seem to be a subset of Tiger’s MessageRules.plist. I might try to do a copy&paste operation and see if it works.

]]> By: Erik Abele http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-162 Erik Abele Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:53:52 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/07/12/exporting-rules-from-mailapp/#comment-162 There's a file called MessageRules.plist in your ~/Library/Mail directory. Copy this one over to the same place on another OS X account and you should be fine. But be sure to keep the same folder structure in Mail.app so that the rules know in which folder to route the msgs. Hope that helps... (10.4/Tiger only) There’s a file called MessageRules.plist in your ~/Library/Mail directory. Copy this one over to the same place on another OS X account and you should be fine. But be sure to keep the same folder structure in Mail.app so that the rules know in which folder to route the msgs.

Hope that helps… (10.4/Tiger only)

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