entourage help

[chinapete]

i am brand new to Mac and run my business from a lap top,and need to be organised on mail

i downloaded entourage, but struggle to organise the mail

i make 'rules' but it does not follow them, they still stay in the inbox, do not go to the file i have opened for them.

i can drag them there, i can then highlight them, find the rule and run the rule.... but by this time I may have well just dragged it into the file by then

am i doing something wrong ? or is this the way it is ?

I know it is not outlook, but in outlook, i make a rule, read the mail...... and find it where i told it to go..... easy.... am sure there is some where i am going wrong

any help would be great, as i am very new to Mac

Cheers

Pete