A month or so ago the amount of spam I was receiving (30 a day) was getting annoying. Each day, 5 or so of these junk mails would get past my filters, and I'd have to manually delete them. Since making some changes, and installing some nice new software, I now spend only a couple of minutes every week on spam-related activities. I've had one spam get past my filters in the past week - well, I think it was spam. I couldn't actually work out what it was, as it didn't appear to be advertising. It seemed like just a misdirected mail, so I don't blame my filters for missing it.
I now use PopTray to check my POP mailbox, and delete emails on the server that are not properly addressed to me, or that SpamAssassin (run by the ISP before it reaches me) has labelled as absolutely positively spam. This gets rid of about 20 and 1 spams respectively each day.
I then retrieve any emails via the K9 proxy, which adds its own labels to spam. This filters another 2 spams a day, which my email program then moves into a junk folder, for safekeeping.
In the last month I've had only one email labelled as spam which wasn't. I found it during my 2 minutes of checking each week, where I look in K9 at the ratings of the emails it processed, and check the spams that it thought were least like spam.
This whole setup works so well that I am not irritated by spam at all nowadays. Bliss!
