Mail rules not working...

I have set a mail rule to mark all messages as read. This rule will only work if I force it to apply (Cmd +A to select all then right click apply rules). The messages show as read on Mail, but when I view the same account on my ipad they still show as being unread. Is this a Mavericks problems?


I am still having lots of problems getting mail to apply rules. Someone has suggested that it only works on new mail. Very confused. It works sometimes and doesnt at other times.


I am using Gmail

MacBook Pro, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Nov 8, 2013 1:05 PM

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Mar 10, 2014 11:24 AM in response to rb290169

None of the previous solutions worked for me, or they weren't applicable, however I did find a workaround to get this error resolved.


Essentially I had "Mark as Read" put into a rule that was also in charge of moving a message. Even when I said to "Mark as Read" first, it wasn't marking the message read.


I fixed this by moving "Mark as Read" into its own separate rule, and moving that rule to the top of the Rules queue (which was otherwise entirely empty-- everyone else's suggestion of removing the "News from Apple" rule didn't apply to me). So now I have rules to move messages start after they've been "Marked as Read," rather than have them combined.


This solution works for me, however this doesn't change the fact that as far as I'm concerned, this is a bug that needs to be addressed.

Oct 17, 2014 2:17 AM in response to BioRich

My issue is this: I have a rule that any paypal notification I get for an incoming payment is supposed to change the color of the background (this works 100% of the time), flags the message (this works 100% of the time) and then runs an apple script that detects the sender's email address from the body of the email and sends an auto responder with a custom subject . This works 1% of the time. But usually works if I manually apply the rule again. How could it apply only 2 out of the 3 actions?

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