Mail Rule bug

I'm trying to create a rule that will archive some of my Exchange mail that is greater than 500 days old. Overtime I set up the rule and then check it the 500 days changes to 7 days and I have to panic stop the rule, can't think of a way around it. Is this a bug?
Many thanks

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ACCOUNTS
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Regard,
Peter

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I also did a bug report. Hopefully this gets fixed FAST!!

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I have the same problem in MacOS 10.7.5, and it is a heavy problem, cause in fact Apple prevents us from professional work.May be we should chenge to Microsoft Exchange. I didn't have this problem in former versions, the forwarding WITH attachements worked fine.
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As an "Only Mac User" since 1988 I'm very disappointed about the fact, that Apple doesn't take serious the problems of their users caused by BUGS.

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you can submit a bug report here:
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You will need ADC membership to do so. it's free and you can use your existing apple id to get it.

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http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/
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My rules are still there, so perhaps Apple support speak with resource forked tongue.
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The rule is checked and I haven't found a +Apply Rules to Incoming Emails+ check box. I thought that happen automatically. Anyone have any ideas on what is going wrong or further ways I could debug it?

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Hi Glenn,
Many thanks for this. Unfortunately i dont have this facility on the server as we are using a simple opensource mail delivery and storage service, so the rules would have to be set up on the computer.
I was using Outlook 2011 and prior that was using Entourage 2008 and both worked well with the IMAP rules. Nothing was ommitted and everything READ or UNREAD was imported and the rules applied. It's only in Apple Mail that these rules dont seem to work.
Is there no other work around? No Apple Mail Add-Ins? I see quite a number of people complaining about the same problem and i'm surprise that Apple has not found a solution for this.
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Regards,
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