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I have just changed from a G4 flat screen iMac running OSX 10.2.8 to a 20" iMac running OSX 10.5.5, and as a result Mail has changed from v1.2.5 to v.3.5.
I have managed to transfer the more important e-mails from the old machine to the new without too much difficulty, but I am desperate to transfer also the many mail-sorting/directing rules which I had set up on the old machine - I would prefer not to have to set up all of them again from scratch.
I thought it might just be a case of copying an appropriate plist from the old to the new version, but I have a feeling that structured differently in the two versions of Mail.
I should be most grateful for any guidance on this matter.
peterb

So far as I know, you need to copy the MessageRules.plist file from ~/Library/Mail of the old system to the same location on the new system. The format could have changed, but you'll never find out unless you try it first.
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