Apple Mail doesn't apply rules unless I choose "Apply Rules" manually

Apple Mail doesn't apply rules unless I choose "Apply Rules" manually I'm using Apple Mail with IMAP account. I have several filtering rules defined. The problem is that Mail doesn't apply them automatically to incoming email. Even spam isn't filtered automatically.
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Guest [Entry]

"This is a bug.

In their infinite wisdom, Mail.app developers decided only to apply rules to 'unseen' messages. If the IMAP 'seen' flag is set, rules will not be applied.

I started a forum thread on the apple forums on this topic."

Guest [Entry]

"I had the same issue, but it turned out the first rule in the list (News from Apple) had ""Stop evaluating rules"" as the last action.

I removed this action and it worked fine."