Mail won't save rules

I've upgraded to Mountain Lion and now all my mail.app rules are missing. Worse, I can add a new rule, close and then reopen the app,  and the newly created rule is gone. Any ideas?
Mark Allison

Hi Mark and others,
I may have a solution to your problem as the following fix worked for me.
Close Mail.
Go to… System Preferences > iCloud…
Uncheck "Documents & Data".
Open Mail and create a new rule. Quit Mail and re-open to confirm you new rule is still there.
You can then turn "Documents & Data" back on.
Everything seems to be working for me correctly since I did this.
Hope this helps,
∞ matt

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