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Another suggestion . . .
Being thoroughly annoyed with spam myself, I've done some extensive research into filtering the junk out. While creating rules based on headers and certain flagged words can do a lot of good, the better solution is to use a stastical method of analysis called "bayesian filtering". For a detailed explanation of why this method is better, click here.
This may sound kinda complex, and it is, but the implementation isn't that bad. There's a project on Sourceforge called POPfile. The good news is that it's Perl-based, so it will work on any system that supports Perl (OS X included). The bad news is that the filter only currently supports POP mail, not IMAP (sorry .Mac people). I've been using this filter for only a few weeks and it's already at 98.5% accuracy with no false positives. And I can use the same "brains" on every computer I use, since it's cross platform compatible. I highly recommend it.
How do you get this to work?
When I run perl popfile.pl I get
How do you get this to work?
There are two things you need to have installed that don't come with POPfile: (1) Perl, which is in the Developer's Tools, and (2) the MIME/Base64 module for Perl, which Apple inexplicably doesn't include in their Perl installation. This site has a link to the module, as well as good detailed instructions for installing the whole shebang and setting up a startup item to automatically run it at startup.
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