Apple mail junk folder old mail

My apple mail junk folder keeps filling up with old mail that i have deleted.  How can I stop it.

I agree with Satchmo.  Apple Mail's Junk Filter is a joke and has never worked.  I never had problems managing spam when using Eudora until I switch to Tiger Mail.  Since then, it moves good mail to junk, and even the most obvious junk stays in my inbox.  Every day for years now I have had to manually review all 1,000 emails of my daily emails to correctly ID spam.
And, it must be done each and every time email is retrieved because I tie delete from server to moving from in box.  If Mail has a false Junk, if I don't move it back to In Box right away, it is deleted from server on next check.
You can't train it.  I've been clicking "Junk" on the crap for years and still comes to my In Box.  I've reset training at least a dozen times, but it never works.
I predict Apple will never fix this.

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