Bill,
I suffer the same problems (Problem 1 and Problem 2) as you. I am interested in a solution.
One that I have thought about doing is putting my laptop on the table with my iMac and opening up the mail rules setting and just creating what¡¯s on one computer on the other - but it seems so time consuming and I have other things I wish to do.
A second solution would be to take screen shots of the rules on computer A and using the shots to create the rules on computer B but again that seems time consuming, etc.
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On Aug 16, 2024, at 1:30?PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices.
Suppose I have two devices.
Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied.
Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices
Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules.
Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.)
Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)?
Thanks,
Bill
