Active rules in mailboxes

Hi, Community.. I just received some splendid answers to a question I had.
I found that i still have one question..
i have two mail accounts at mac.com.. they are together in my mail account , (separated into two as required in the 'accounts'' tab.)
i applied some rules to my mail ..to detect mail from certain e mail addresses and to direct them to the trash folder of mail.
The way I did this was to set a rule as
coming from ...and then typed in the e mail offending address
and then action taken: move to trash.
I got a pop up box which says
Applying rules to the selected mailboxes may change their contents. Active rules will always be applied to new messages.
i clicked on the "do not apply" button.. was this the right thing to do?..or should I have clicked on "apply"?
i told the last group of repondents
(?) (where is the spell checker?)
to my question that i am a bit dense when it comes to computers and language pertaining to..
what exactly does the line in BOLD TEXT mean above.?.. what does 'selected mailboxes' mean?
i have created the rule above, (about five rules pertaining to five incoming e mail addresses) and i fully expect it to be applied to all the incoming e mails, but i clicked on the "do not apply..button, because i thought that applying rules to selected mailboxes might change their contents>
so confused..as usual
ali

What you did will make the rule apply to incoming messages. If you had clicked apply, it probably would have checked your mailboxes for those addresses and removed any it found that matched the rule.

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Of course, what it SHOULD be is this:
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> As to marking sent messages versus received, if you didn't do that,
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It’s the need to tell them apart that I don’t understand...
You'd want to be able to tell them apart for the same reasons
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