How do I import message rules, etc. to Mail?

I'm moving from an MBP with Snow Leopard to a new one running Yosemite. I use Apple Mail for my email client. I have all my email accounts set up on the new computer, and it's downloading messages.. and all the old Mailboxes survived the migration-- but there's nothing in them.
How do I
1- import the Message rules to Yosemite's Mail, I have the MessageRules.plist but can't find a Library to put them in! is there another way?
2- Is there a way to import the messages filtered into the mailboxes on the old MBP? The computer has downloaded all the non-filtered ones, but the new ones leave the inbox and so they're not on the new computer.
3- is there a way to set up these mailboxes and rules/ filters on my mobile devices? I have an old iPhone4 running iOS7 and a iPad2 with iOS8.
I use Gmail for most of my mail, but don't much like the UI, I prefer Mails. I monitor 4 Gmail accounts plus the iCloud and 1 with my own domain.
many thanks for any help
marie

James from Macclesfield wrote:
Without this capability, which I can't find, it seems that mail collected by the iPhone isn't visible on the mackbook.
If you setup your iCloud mail on all of your devices/computers, it will behave just like any IMAP account will. As for mail rules, not possible on any iPhone. Read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2589

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