How to automatically move messages from an IMAP folder to a local folder?

I have rules set up on my IMAP server to filter messages to various folders. While these folders do show up in Mail.app, they're listed under the accounts, which, for me, is off the screen. Is there some way I can have these messages automatically moved into a local folder? The built-in rules don't seem to work, as they appear to only apply to messages arriving in an Inbox.
Having to manually move messages is getting old real fast.

I think this does what you want. You'll need to create the local mailbox first and change the xxx's to your account identifier:
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tell application "Mail"
set messageList to (messages of mailbox "Dump" of account "[email protected]" of application "Mail")
move messageList to mailbox "DUMP_Local"
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