Applescript: reorder mail rules

So the order of the rules does matter.

Yes, the order matters in Mail, but the order pulled by getting the rules may not be changeable except by deleting all of them and inserting them via AppleScript in the order you wish.

And, as I already stated, if you don’t see it in the Library, there isn’t a command to do it (whatever the “it” is).

I tried to get the list of rules and edit it, but it did not take. You would have to extract each rule and store that copy so you could rebuild the list through inserting the copy into the list.

Open the Mail library in Script Editor. That will tell you everything you can do with Mail using AppleScript.

There isn't an order to rules except maybe inserting them into the application in the order you wish.

If the position in the list matters to Mail, then you could insert your rules into the list of rules where you want it.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/ManipulateListsofItems.html

My quick attempt at using that method did nothing.

You don't always want the set the new rule at the bottom of the list. As Barney-15E mentioned they are acted upon in the order they are in. Also, rules only work on emails in the Inbox. So if a rule moves an email to another mailbox subsequent rules will not affect them.