Best solution for me it to have an e-mail client with good spam filtering. Mozilla Thunderbird does the trick for me. It is a very powerful and good e-mail client, and it has a wonderful spam filter. You do have to configure it (it is off by default), and teach it a bit about what is spam and what is not spam (that last bit is important - you have to (at least in the beginning) indicate which messages are good as well as which are bad. Good news is that the thing is a quick learner.
The report is good. I have just been away on holiday for two weeks. In one specific mail account, I received about 3000 messages in those weeks, of which about 2600 were spam. Fortunately though, the spam filter did it's work and I only had to manually remove about 20 or 30 messages.
I do advise anybody who starts training a spam filter to be cautious and check that no message are wrongly marked as spam. However, this should only last about a week or two/three. I have not seen any falsely marked spam for a while and currenlty just throw away all spam anyway.
One more trick for spam filtering in Thunderbird. Many news mails etc are easily marked as spam. I you add the sender to you address book, then it will never be marked as spam (though I think that can be switched off ass well).
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