I have rules like that in eM Client, created using the Rule Wizard. They work perfectly for me (although the Wizard options are somewhat limiting).
First, you open the Rule Wizard, and highlight the template: “Move messages from someone to a folder.” Then in the rule preview box (same Wizard screen), you click on the “from people” highlighted link. This opens another popup box (called "Searched addresses) where you can enter a “new address” – it’s asking for a full email address. They don’t have to be actual “people”.
If the email address you want is located in your Contacts, you can press the Contacts… button, and it will pop up another box where you can select an address from your list of Contacts. (You do that by clicking the appropriate checkbox.) Then in that Contacts pop-up, you press OK.
When you have all the addresses entered properly that you want covered by your rule, you press OK in the “Searched addresses” pop-up. That brings you back to the Rule Wizard pop-up. Down in the Rule Preview of that box, it should say something like this: After message has been received from ‘xyz@abc.com’, ‘team@bcd.com’ move to folder. Several of the words in this statement will be in a blue font, and are clickable, but you don’t need to do that now.
Rather, just press the Next button once (or maybe twice), and the pop-up screen will change to “Select actions for the rule”. For this kind of rule, I check “move to folder” and usually also “stop processing other rules”. Only have checked the ones you actually want to use. You’ll need to then click on the blue word “folder” in the Rules preview. This brings you to the Select Folder pop-up, which provides a list of all your folders. Highlight the one folder you want to move mail to from your entered email address list. Then Press OK in the Select Folder pop-up, returning you to the Select Actions box.
Then press the “Next” button at the bottom of the Select Actions. This takes you to the Select Exceptions screen, where you can select items as needed. When finished with exceptions, press the “Next” button at the bottom of the Select Exceptions screen.
You’re now at the Finish Rule Configuration screen. The Wizard pre-populates a Rule Name, but you’ll want to change it to something meaningful to you. Also, be sure that the Enable Rule checkbox is checked. Finally, look once more at the Rule Preview (bottom of pop-up) to see that everything looks as you expect. If so, press the “Next” button at the bottom of that screen. You should now see your new rule with a checked box on the main Rules Wizard screen, and you can press the Close button.
Sorry for the length – it’s much easier to do than to explain in words. Plus, with practice, you’ll discover various shortcuts. But I thought it might be helpful to have it explained in detail.
If emails don’t move properly after carefully entering your desired info/choices, you may have conflicts with other rules in your collection. Then you may have to play with the order of your rules, check or uncheck “stop processing other rules”, or make some other changes to achieve your objective.
Hope this helps. In writing this, I created a new rule and wrote down the steps. It works… ~Mark