Can i copy mail.app's rules?

twister

twister

Howdy
I have mail.app running at work and home. Well i'm going to create rules to help organize my mailboxes. My question is, if i spend time at work setting up all my rules, can i then, somehow, copy those same rules to my home machine? Or will i have to re-create them at home?

Twister
 
Sure can go into your home folder and open library/mail

You will see a file called LSMMap copy this into the same location on the other mac.

StarBuck
 
No wonder i couldn't find it. I was looking for something with 'Rules' in the name. Now what does that file include? Just rules or other setting also?

Thanks
Twister
 
I found this thread and discovered that LSMMap and LSMMap2 are the files used by the junk mail filters. These don't contain any info on your regular rules. After doing some more reading... I found the following solution (posting it here so anyone else who finds this can save some time):

Copying these two files located in your home/library/mail directory to the equivalent directory on your new mac:

MessageSorting.plist
MessageSorting.plist.backup
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top