Mail rules no longer work.

Having trouble with Mail rules that I have used in the past - they no longer work. Any ideas? Running 10.4.10

Yes, the same thing has happened to me.
But I'd like to avoid having to set up the the rules again (if I trashing the com.apple.mail.plist. I have a lot of rules, and it would take some time to set them up again. Does anyone know of other options?

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You might condider using an Applescript with Mail Rules.
Here's one that I use (Use whitelist to not move to spam):
(Just edit to your junk or whitelist)
Note: The Applescripit must be saved to: ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail/
The rule:
The AppleScript:
using terms from application "Mail"
          on perform mail action with messages theMessages
                    tell application "Mail"
                              repeat with theMessage in theMessages
                                        set theSender to (sender of theMessage)
                                        set theReplyto to (reply to of theMessage)
                                        set theSubject to (subject of theMessage)
                                        set theHeader to (all headers of theMessage)
                                        set theContent to (source of theMessage as string)
                                        set theAccount to (account of mailbox of theMessage)
                                        if my blacklist(theSender, theReplyto, theSubject, theHeader, theContent) ¬
                                                  and not my whitelist(theSender, theHeader) then
                                                  my moveToJunkFolder(theMessage, theAccount)
                                        end if
                              end repeat
                    end tell
          end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
on blacklist(f, r, s, h, c)
          if h contains "X-YahooFilteredBulk" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: fail" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: softfail" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: error" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: permerror" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: temperror" or ¬
                    h contains "streamsendbouncer@" or ¬
                    s contains "[Bulk]" or ¬
                    f contains "Vigra.candianmeds.com" or ¬
                    f contains "[email protected]" or ¬
                    f contains ".cz" or ¬
                    r contains ".ma" then
                    return true
     end if
end blacklist
on whitelist(f, h)
          if f contains "aicpa" or ¬
          f contains "eWeek.com" or ¬
                    h contains "from macbook-air.local" then
                    return true
          else
                    return false
          end if
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on moveToJunkFolder(m, a)
          tell application "Mail"
                    try
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                              set the junk mail status of m to true
                              set theAccount to (account of mailbox of m)
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          end tell
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> I can send myself a message from my Mail App and receive it in my Mail App, BUT I cannot receive E-mail from somebody else to my Mail Application.
> Sent a Message from both Hotmail and Yahoo to my Mail App, but did not receive either message.
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