Multiple Mail Rules

Hi All
I have a domain which forwards all e-mail to one e-mail address so anything @exmple.com goes to this e-mail address. For a decade I've use MS Entourage to sort e-mails and redirect them to specific e-mail addresses, but since Lion doesn't support Entourage and the new Outlook doesn't support redirects in e-mail rules I moved to Apple Mail and I'm testing at the moment. My rules are quite simple and seem to work OK but I have issues when two rules apply to one e-mail i.e when 2 or more recipients match in my rules for example:
If I set 2 rules
If - All Recepients are equal to [email protected] - Mark As Read - Redirect to [email protected]
If - All Recepients are equal to [email protected] - Mark As Read - Redirect to [email protected]
If I send an e-mail to both [email protected] and [email protected] Mail deals with them and redirects but as the [email protected] is above [email protected] in the rule list it sends 2 e-mails to [email protected]
With Entourage (an Outlook) there was a tick box to allow other rules to be applied to the same message (you still get a list of rules with the top ones having priority) but Entourage would redirect 1 e-mail to [email protected] and 1 to [email protected]
As far as I can tell Mail will apply multiple rules to the same e-mail unless you set a rule with Stop Evaluating Rules in it. It redirects 2 e-mails but only to one e-mail address.
Is it because both addresses end with @example.com?
Thanks
Ben

OK, glad to say that I think I figured it out. It is a lack of rules set up by me with my domain name host (Network Solutions) - now completed.
My confusion was:
1. Both my Macs filter the offending emails just fine... I thought the email on the iPhone was being filtered thru them. That was dumb!
2. Verizon is my internet provider, and I do have verizon.net emails.
3. Mac.com is hosting my web site... but....
4. Network Solutions provides my domain name, pointing to Mac.com with domain masking.
Whew, I think I have to many cooks in the kitchen - especially when I keep burning the water.
Hope this helps someone else - (probably not to many folks here as complicated)

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