Sync Mail with .Mac

Hello,
I've had my Macbook less than a week. I've been searching the Discussions boards and google about syncing my iMail with .Mac.
I read this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=720270&#720270
And so I created folders in .Mac and then I created these same folders in iMail. What I wanted to happen is when I open mail via .MAC I would leave it there. So when I got home and opened iMail the same emails would be there, then the rules that apply to the "on the mac" folders would kick in and file themselves in the appropriate folders but that is not happening.
I.E. I'm forwarding my Yahoo mail to .Mac address. When I open iMail (using my .Mac account ALIAS) I was hoping iMail rules will see these messages and apply rules.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this to work.
Thank you in advance.
Z'Dane

Hello Z'Dane.
First of all, there is no such thing as ‘iMail’ in Mac OS X. I assume you’re talking about Apple Mail (i.e. the Mail application located in the /Applications/ folder).
And so I created folders in .Mac and then I created these same folders in iMail.
This is wrong. You can create the folders either on the web or using Mail, but if these are meant to be the same folders, you shouldn’t create them both ways.
then the rules that apply to the "on the mac" folders would kick in and
file themselves in the appropriate folders but that is not happening.
I don’t fully understand what you’re saying, but the problem could be that rules in Mail are automatically applied to incoming messages only, not to messages that have already been read, for example.
You can, however, select the messages in Mail and manually apply your rules to them doing Message > Apply Rules.

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