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Mail rules don’t work.

I have a stack of rules in Mail. At some point, they just stopped working. They used to work once so I was obviously doing the right thing in creating them.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 8, 2022 9:00 PM

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Posted on Sep 9, 2022 4:22 AM

jeff.grant wrote:

I have a stack of rules in Mail. At some point, they just stopped working. They used to work once so I was obviously doing the right thing in creating them.



Some issues are resolved here— try turning off Mail in iCloud— edit rules and see if they saved properly; re-enable iCloud Mail.



Rules:


Change Add Rule settings in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

Change Rule settings in Mail on Mac - Apple Support



Filter emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

Filter emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support



Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac ...

Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac - Apple Support


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Sep 9, 2022 4:22 AM in response to jeff.grant

jeff.grant wrote:

I have a stack of rules in Mail. At some point, they just stopped working. They used to work once so I was obviously doing the right thing in creating them.



Some issues are resolved here— try turning off Mail in iCloud— edit rules and see if they saved properly; re-enable iCloud Mail.



Rules:


Change Add Rule settings in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

Change Rule settings in Mail on Mac - Apple Support



Filter emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

Filter emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support



Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac ...

Use rules to manage emails you receive in Mail on Mac - Apple Support


Mail rules don’t work.

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