Can Apple Mail filter spam per account?

Sorry if this is to the wrong forum - I didn't see one for Apple Mail.
I have two mail accounts setup in Apple Mail: one for work (an MS Exchange server) and one for home (a gmail account via IMAP).  When I originally setup Mail, junk filtering was on, but I vaguely recall the junk filtering interfering with the filtering Google's own junk mechanism (which, by the way, is amazingly effective!), so I turned off Mail's junk filtering.  But lately, I've been getting more junk mail on my work account and would like to do junk filtering there.  But it appears that "Junk" filtering can only be turned on globally - not on an account basis.  Or is there a way?
Thanks for all info/suggestion.

There's really no way for the Mail's Junk filter to interfere with Google's. Google's filter acts before Mail even sees the message. I would just turn it on. If Google's filter is good, Mail will rarely see any spam that Google didn't already deal with.
But if you really want to exclude an account, choose Perform custom actions in the Junk Mail pane of Mail preferences. Then in the Advanced dialog, set criteria to restrict the filter according to Account.

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