Incoming mail goes to wrong mailbox

I recently created a rule in Mail to send all messages from a certain address to a specific mailbox. Trouble is, now about 50% of ALL my mail goes to that mailbox (instead of the Inbox), even if it doesn't come from the address specified in the rule.
What do I need to do to make sure that incoming messages not otherwise directed by one of my rules all end up in my Inbox?

It sounds like an error in the mail rule. Pay particular attention to the Any or All criteria.
Captfred

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On Dec, 2 I submitted this question:
Dec 2, 2013 6:12 AM
My incoming mail now goes to the archive file instead of the inbox file. I have changed nothing and it still shows up in the inbox but allnew notifications go to the archive file. I am using OSX 10.9 Any ideas hoiw to fix this?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion
It was suggested to delete the account and then add it anew. That seemed to work fine, but two weeks later it all began again. All the incoming mail goes to an Archive folder and no new notifications are shown in the new mail accopunt? I hate to have to delete and reopen the accoiunt every few weeks.
Any ideas? I see the same issue on other discussions but no explanations?

What email program are you using?

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Have you confirmed that both the Addressbook and the Previous Recipients info is present and complete? For example, if the Previous Recipients were somehow corrupted, then all messages would go there regardless of whether in the AB. For the Rule as written with the OR, both address listing would have to be identical. I would think you meant a test that would use AND.
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My mail has suddenly stopped receiving any incoming mail, I have gmail and of course icloud but nothing coming in or going out. I've ran the connection doctor and it's showing that the connection to the internet is fine, so where is the mail?
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I can access my gmail via the internet so posts will be seen.
thanks, any advice will be welcome as i'm at a loss.

I've ran the connection doctor and it's showing that the connection to the internet is fine
What about the connections to the mail servers?

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I amm also having mail going to th wrong accounts, luckily it is only happening to few out of 170+ accounts.
Pterobyte- I seen your suggestions on the other similiar post and cannot seem to find anything wrong in those areas.
I am enclosing current postconf & smtplog for your info.
Let me know if there is anything else you need.
Last login: Mon Oct 30 15:00:59 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Skilster:~ admin$ postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
enableserveroptions = yes
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = all
mail_owner = postfix
mailboxsizelimit = 0
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
messagesizelimit = 0
mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,localhost,mail.skilonline.com,skilonline.com
mydomain = skilonline.com
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = mail
mynetworks = 192.168.10.250/32,65.66.91.249,127.0.0.1/32,192.168.4.0/24,192.168.1.0/24,192.1 68.2.0/24,192.168.3.0/24
mynetworks_style = host
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = postdrop
smtpdclientrestrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/smtpdreject
smtpdpw_server_securityoptions = login
smtpdrecipientrestrictions = permitsasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauthdestination,permit
smtpdsasl_authenable = yes
smtpdtls_keyfile =
smtpduse_pwserver = yes
unknownlocal_recipient_rejectcode = 550
Skilster:~ admin$
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 80990E5F489: message-id=<20061022212104.93FE620CD54@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: mail for [127.0.0.1]:10024 is using up 4001 of 4179 active queue entries
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to reduce smtp-amavis connect and helo timeouts
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: so that Postfix quickly skips unavailable hosts
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to increase the main.cf minimalbackofftime and maximalbackofftime
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: so that Postfix wastes less time on undeliverable mail
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to increase the master.cf smtp-amavis process limit
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: please avoid flushing the whole queue when you have
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: lots of deferred mail, that is bad for performance
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: to turn off these warnings specify: qmgrclog_warntime = 0
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: BC96AE5F48A: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03CF9A19CEA
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: BC96AE5F48A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28868E5BFB4: from=<[email protected]>, size=2651, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28877E51AD7: from=, size=3928, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28877E56F87: from=<[email protected]>, size=1672, nrcpt=13 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: E3D88E5F48E: uid=27 from= orig_id=03CFEA2EE0E
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: E3D88E5F48E: message-id=<20061027025516.2F93A90A4A9@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2887EE50216: from=, size=3754, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288B2E5E899: from=, size=4429, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 1F16CE5F492: uid=27 from= orig_id=03D019FE1A7
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288BDE4A388: from=<[email protected]>, size=2147, nrcpt=6 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288D4E4D52A: from=<[email protected]>, size=1585, nrcpt=5 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 1F16CE5F492: message-id=<20061027095250.C308295642D@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288D7E58445: from=, size=4019, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28909E4EE47: from=, size=4369, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 52EE5E5F493: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA2A565
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: 52EE5E5F493: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28928E5E8E8: from=<[email protected]>, size=2285, nrcpt=9 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 774A7E5F494: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA4DB9D
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: 774A7E5F494: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28930E5CDD9: from=<[email protected]>, size=1953, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 8F19CE5F496: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0EA0B1AE
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 8F19CE5F496: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2896CE4F622: from=<[email protected]>, size=2669, nrcpt=6 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 9B98EE5F497: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D10A15914
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: 9B98EE5F497: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2897BE4D773: from=, size=4071, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289AAE4E89C: from=, size=4309, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: B375BE5F498: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D16A488A8
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: B375BE5F498: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289B4E51D1F: from=, size=4524, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289C3E5E56E: from=<[email protected]>, size=1512, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A26E4C8E0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2012, nrcpt=10 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: C9531E5F499: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D1EA4D844
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: C9531E5F499: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A58E4CCC0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2193, nrcpt=4 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A74E510AE: from=, size=3944, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: E1433E5F49A: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D219EE5EA
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: E1433E5F49A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:49 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A83E50BA2: from=, size=5396, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
o.com.tw>, relay=none, delay=5097, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mx2.mail.tw.yahoo.com[203.188.197.10] refused to talk to me: 453 Mail from 65.66.91.249 not allowed - [90])
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE66E5EE43: from=<[email protected]>, size=2077, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 265E0E5F8D7: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=04806A06335
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[835]: 265E0E5F8D7: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE9BE4EDC0: from=, size=4463, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

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The queue is running like 150k to 170k, I've got content filter off right in order to isolate problems.
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This wrong account issue is causing some severe creditability issues with this server as you can imagine.
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I ended up REMOVING the junk folder from the list of folders on the left. When mail arrives that IS junk, I mark it junk, then select "move to junk folder (again)" and off it goes. I find this much better than to have all my mail go to junk and I have to UNjunk it and move it to the appropriate folder.
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