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Still, makes checking spam folder necessary

Which completely negates the advantages of having a spam filter at all.

You still have to plow through all your emails, except now it's a bit harder because you have to look through multiple folders.

I don't know, you should be right, but I somehow feel this to be more convenient, especially with a line or so of the message displayed along with subject and sender, as Gmail does. Even with a 'normal' POP3 client (e.g. OE) and decent Bayesian (sp?) filter (I switched from POPFile to K9) it seems to me faster to glance once or twice a day at spam folder and, unless I spot something familiar, delete everything in one go than to delete messages from my inbox one by one. Besides, false-positives are never 'normal' textual messages that one cares for the most, but usually HTML-formatted newsletters (e.g. the one from Java Developer's Journal I found among spam another day) which will not be missed terribly if deleted by accident.
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