Help.  My junk mail filter is not working in Yosemite.

AAny suggestions for getting junk mail filters to work?

Well, after the latest update to Yosemite (version 10.10.2 (14C109)) Junk Filters seem to be working again.  In the latest update I did not see mention of changes to Mail filters but i could have missed a note from Apple.
One caution, I have had to double check the junk mail folder a bit because the Junk Mail filter has restarted as if from the beginning.  That is it has to relearn everything.
R

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