Sorting of e-mails

I get a lot of mails from a Yahoo-group and want to sort them into into a separate folder. So
I created a new inbox (folder named yahoo) and used “Rules” to setuo the sorting criterias. It does not work.The mails go into my in-box and not to the Yahoo folder. However if I I select a mail and go to "Menu Messages" I can select "move the mail back to the Yahoo" folder where it have never appeared. I am using a Macmini with OSX10.4.7..What can cause the problem??
Erik Olsen
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Hello Dan!
Thank you very much for your comments to my problem. I am afraid I did not present the problem in an easy to understand way and also I can not follow your sugestion. If I have had your e-mail adress I could have sent you a screenshot that would have been more explaning. However it looks like I have solved the problem by adding one more critera:
Day for the dispatch of the mail " less than 3 days"
If you are interested let me have your e-mail and I will send you a screen shot.
regards Erik

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