Auto delete inbox mail after rules applied

Just moved our entire office over to Apple Mail. Working out the migration kinks now and learning the ropes. Here’s a productivity question:
Once you set up rules to apply to incoming mail, is there any way to have the mail in the inbox automatically deleted after the applied Rules duplicate it into a folder?

patrick1,
Mail>Preferences...>Accounts>Mailbox Behaviors>Junk>Erase messages in the junk mailbox when: One day old...etc
;~)

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