Rule to move Read mail to folder in Mac.mail

I Would like all my email to arrive in my Inbox and automatically be moved to a specific folder once I have read it. I would like to set a Mail rule to do this but can't find a way. Any tips appreciated.

Mail rules can't do that. you can set up an apple script that moves all read messages from inbox where you want. you can then set up a launch daemon or a cron to run this apple script periodically. However, I'm not completely clear how you want this to work. something like this will activate as soon as you click on a message and it's status changes to read (that takes only a couple of seconds). How can you be sure that you've finished reading it before the rule applies?

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