Notifications and Mail Rules

I am experiencing some bizarre troubles with Mail. Specifically, I have a complex set of rules in Mail; some of them, automatically move an email from the inbox folder to another folder I created if a specific name or subject is met. Now, when an email that match a rule arrives it is automatically moved according to the rule but it is not notified. An email is notified only if it is not subjected to a rule. Is there a way to get notified whenever an email arrives?

madHelloKitty wrote:
just cutting/pasting the symbol into the rule doesn't work. Ideas?
The symbol may be representing something else in the underlying text. You could try View > Message > Raw Source to see what that is.

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