Mail Is Ignoring Rules

I have a bunch of rules to put mail from certain companies or people into mailboxes I made for them. Now many of them are not working, and the mail is ending up in my main box, instead of putting it in the mailbox I want it to be moved to.
Short of deleting the rule and doing it again, what do i need to do to make it work??

Hi Chris Winkler1,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots. 
Mail (Mavericks): Manage messages using rules
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14906
Apply rules
To apply rules to messages in mailboxes, select the messages, then choose Message > Apply Rules.
When you disable an account, rules applied to the account’s mailboxes are also disabled; you must enable the rules again after you reenable the account
Mail stops applying rules when the Stop Evaluating Rules action is used, or when a message is transferred to another mailbox by rules used on a server or on a computer or device synced to your computer.
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

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