Mail rules and Iphone

Hi, I use Mail on my Mac with rules set up to automatically sort my messages into folders as they arrive. Problem is that once a message is moved into a folder, it never arrives onto my phone. I can see messages that aren't set up to move from my top level Inbox, but not those moved due to rules. Is there any way i can use the rules and still have the messages on my Iphone? Right now my only solution seems to be to quit mail each time I walk away from my desktop but sometimes I forget.
thanks!
cindy in indy

On your iPhone mail with rules will go to your "All Mail" folder while Mail.app is running. When mail.app is closed they will all go to your inbox.
Are you using gmail with IMAP? If you are then you can mirror the rules you have set up on your mac to be identical in the gmail server. I believe this will make your iPhone look like your mac does with the "labels" becoming folders. I have not tested that, so try it and see if it works.

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