Mail Box Rules' won't work!

How do I get the 'Rule' function to work? I want certain mail I recieve to be deleted. I have entered all the information I thought it needed, but it still doesn't work.
For eg: I want to delete all the Apple Discussion forums that don't relate to my topics, because I am recieving thousands of them everytime I log on (which isn't very often). So I just want to delete them.
Does it make a difference if I select the option 'subject' or 'from'? I am really sick of manually deleting all this unwanted mail.

You could setup rule that "if any Subject is xxx" then "move it to Trash", then stop processing rules, but you'd have to keep enough emails to know all the subjects you're receiving before you can filter them out. You can do multiple subjects in one rule.
The discussion forums are available via RSS, so are you using Mail as your RSS Newsreader, or are you truly receiving email? If it's the latter, I suggest using RSS instead, since you can subscribe only to the topics that interest you.
Mulder

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What is the remedy to "properly import" the rules to the new [System Leopard based] mail.app, or to make the manually moved rules plist file work?
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread....9306&tstart=90
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Here's the fix, along with recommendations for Apple programmers.
http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/463491#Post463491

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