German blogger Jan Hinze was surprised to discover that his Junk Mail folder had gathered 41,124 items of junk mail in the past four months:

He had no idea that Mail was at work behind the scenes, keeping this stuff out of his Inbox.

As well as winning the intra-office competition for the largest mailbox, he offers “hefty praise” to Mail.app’s junk filter, which could so easily recognise and master this amount of spam, even on a clapped-out G4 PowerBook.spam, apple mail, mail.app, junk, filter

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