New Switcher Mail Rules Question

Hi everyone. I jsut switched and in setting up Mail I want it to move all mail from a specific account to a Folder( don't want to use the inbox for this account). When I setup the rule to move all mail from account X to folder Z, Junk mail rules are no longer followed. I want it to do the message moved based on the account, but I STILL want the JUNK rule to be active so it filters the junkmail then does the message moving.
Make sense?
Hope someone can help.
Lawrence
Macbook pro yo!   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   all pimped out

Lawrence,
I had been thinking, already, about what to do if this did not work. It occurred to me that the Junk filter might be putting the messages in your other mailbox, INSTEAD of the Junk mailbox, and not as a result of your Rule to move the messages.
One way to test this possibility would be to remove your Rule to move the incoming messages, and see where the Junk filter would then place the junk messages. Your folder would still be available, and if junk mail still found its way there, we would know the answer. In this approach, you could later rewrite the Rule, and have it apply to all messages already in the Inbox.
The other approach would be to change the preferences for Junk, to go back into Training, which should remove the Junk folder. Quit Mail, and then reset Junk to be in Automatic, which then would create new Junk folders.
Still another approach would be to remove all Mail Preferences, and set things up again (but not losing any mailboxes) -- I do not like this approach, for now.
Ernie

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