Mail Rules Not Saving Properly

(Since there isn't a Mail-specific topic (why?), I'm categorizing this under "Mac OS X Technologies.")


I've just taken the leap and migrated all my email accounts to Mail. For the most part, all has been well – however, I've noticed that a few of my mailbox rules (namely rules which color-code messages according to inbox) aren't saving properly. I have the following mailbox rules:

Then, because my Personal inbox messages aren't being coded properly, I Edit the Color-Coding: Personal rule as such:

Then, after rebuilding my mailboxes/restarting mail/doing whatever to properly code my messages, I check the Rules pane, and this is the result:

Why is the mailbox switched to iCloud and not Personal, as I selected it? I'm fairly certain this is not expected behavior. Has anyone else encountered (and hopefully fixed!) this issue before?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 31, 2020 9:15 AM

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Apr 2, 2020 6:26 AM in response to apizzimenti



apizzimenti wrote:

(Since there isn't a Mail-specific topic (why?), I'm categorizing this under "Mac OS X Technologies.")

I've just taken the leap and migrated all my email accounts to Mail. For the most part, all has been well – however, I've noticed that a few of my mailbox rules (namely rules which color-code messages according to inbox) aren't saving properly. I have the following mailbox rules:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/f36652d2-4174-4ece-a2d1-0a5e2f4d141f
Then, because my Personal inbox messages aren't being coded properly, I Edit the Color-Coding: Personal rule as such:
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/48e22887-8480-40cc-bda4-1d33af94f54e
Then, after rebuilding my mailboxes/restarting mail/doing whatever to properly code my messages, I check the Rules pane, and this is the result:
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/517b7a8b-12fb-4bae-9226-ab434ae98d2a
Why is the mailbox switched to iCloud and not Personal, as I selected it? I'm fairly certain this is not expected behavior. Has anyone else encountered (and hopefully fixed!) this issue before?




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