"Sender is not in my address book" not working

Hi
I don't remember when this first started happening - I know it used to work on my PowerBook. I got my new Mac and set up Mail with a series of simple rules. I have five main accounts (which I have colour coded), and what I want is: if the sender is not in my address book, move to trash and colour the appropriate colour. Simple enough - I have set up five rules; one for each account.
The rules usually work, but not always, and I can't see a common denominator, ie some from people not in my address book don't get trashed, and some from people definitely in my address book get trashed.
Any ideas?
tks

Hi James,
Hard to tell if the problem is in Mail, Address Book, or Spotlight, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
Any change?

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