E-mail rules disappeared!

Yesterday, I got several mail hundreds rules I have built over the years. This morning they all disappeared. Pouf! How could this happen, how to fix it and how can I avoid this in the future?

I can't help but wonder if iCloud is to blame. Thanks to the stupid way that their servers treat passwords, I was forced to close the session and open a session in several times, and one of these events may have caused the erasure.

PS: There was not previously a feature to attach screenshots?

Go to Finder and select your user folder. With this Finder window as the windshield, select Finder/display/display options for presenting or order - J.  When the display options opens, check "show the library folder. This should make your visible user library folder in your user folder.  Select Library//Mail/MessageRules.plist. Enter your backup and restore.

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