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Rules in Mac Mail are working terribly randomly - create a rule to color messages from domain = x, didn't work; then tried a rule to color messages to = one of my 3 email addresses ... that worked on about 80% of the messages to that email address (***? no discernable pattern!) after exiting and re-launching mail ... Finally realizing this thing just doesn't work I deleted all the rules ... several exits/re-launches I now still have about 80% of my messages to one email address I use colored, with no discernable pattern. There are no rules now.
Using OS X 10.7.4 on a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro w/ 4 GB Ram, Mail 5.2. Have 3 email addresses, 1 Mobileme using IMAP and 2 Gmail addresses using IMAP.
Thanks.

If you have no rules, then applying them won't change a thing. Once a messages is colored, you would have to create a rule to change the color again.
However, sometimes moving the message back to the inbox will change the color back, expecially with imap since it really has to download it back to the inbox.
If the rules are corrupted, then maybe try this:
First, quit Mail. Have a current backup in case of trouble.
Select Go>, then Go to Folder in the Finder menu. Paste this to get to this folder in the Home Library:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/
Move the MessageRules.plist files to the trash.
If you want to rebuild the message database at the same time, move the Envelope Index files to the trash. (Do not empty as they can be put back if problems arise).
Open Mail. If you chose to rebuild the database, then hit continue in the Message. This will rebuild your message index and could take a while, so be patient.
Try to create a rule and see if it works now.

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