Mailbox rules not working

I added my gmail account to Mail, setup a couple of mailboxes to then have rules send emails to those mailboxes and I often get this error message and the messages stay in my inbox:

Mail was unable to open this mailbox on the server “p71-imap.mail.me.com”.

The server returned the error: Mailbox does not exist (took 1 ms)

Do I need to create these mailboxes in my Gmail account in order for this to work?

Posted on Aug 29, 2023 10:44 AM

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