Newbie needs help creating folders

Hi, just bought my first Mac yesterday! YEA!! I am trying to navigate my way around here, but have a question about folders in Mail.
I have been a PC user for MANY years and in my Outlook, I created folders to move messages to when they came from certain people or contained certain information. For example, I had a "financial" folder set up so that when any banking or other financial related information came in, the rule set up would move the message to that folder.
Of course, I am trying to do the same thing here and I can't seem to figure it out. Will someone help? I want to create the folder and then set up a rule to move those messages. Thank you so much!!

folders are called mailboxes in Mail. you can create them from Mailbox menu. you can also create a smart mailbox which is just a saved search.
you can make rules to automatically move incoming messages to certain mailboxes based in criteria you specify. that's done in mail preferences->rules.

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