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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">On 17 Dec 2016, at 1:23, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">The other day, I spent some time creating some mail-sorting rules. I've since decided that that's the wrong way to handle those particular messages. Is there any rational way to copy the rules from a mailbox to create a smart mailbox, and on three different Macs? I'm not afraid of text editors...</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Rules are saved in this file:</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">As long as MailMate is not running then this file can be copied between machines. You can also edit it and copy rules directly from one mailbox to another. Keep a backup of the file though in case something goes wrong :) (If MailMate cannot parse the file then it should save a copy itself before recreating the default mailboxes file.)</p>
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Benny</p>
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