Why will Big Sur Mail not forward mails with Rules?

Rule:

IF: any

Subject Contains: Google Alert

Forward Message: valid.email.address@gmail.com

Over dozens of sending of test messages to myself from different accounts has not worked once.

Have deleted and rewritten Rule. Original rule had additional step of deleting the email. That did not work either. Various rules and none worked. Other, non-forwarding rules do work.

Also tried a rule that Flagged the email before forwarding it. That sometimes works when only that is in the Rule? Maybe. Don't pay much attention to that.

Original rule had two Subject Contains and one Sender Contains. None worked. All mail is from @google.com addressed to a cox.net account but forwarded to gmail.com.

Current rule is only to forward and only condition is Google Alert.

Separate rules to Flag and delete

Other rules to forward other kinds of emails have also never worked, but I only rewrite/reconfigure this one.

Using the menu and selecting Apply Rules I cannot manually forward the emails.

I can forward from the Tool Bar.

Also, when composing a Rule, after saving it and reopening it the steps are in a different order. Original rule deleted after the forward, but had delete shown first later. It never did that either. I no longer trust the order within a rule and write multiple rules to achieve multiple steps.

Mail on my Mac is a client side application and I can forward emails from there all the time. I do not see how iCloud has anything to do with it.

iCloud has no function that is not better done some other way. It seems that Apple only made it up to hitch users to Apple. The only unique thing iCloud does is delete your files. It was a mistake to turn it on, but an Apple tech said it would fix a problem I had. Didn't fix that problem, but made some.

Unfortunately I will have to explore its arcane functioning to solve other problems.

Thank you for the links, the answer if probably there.

Okay, so Apple just made up new definitions for actions in order to justify the parasitic iCloud. I wish Jobs were still around. I will have to study this.

Thank you.