Incoming mail blocks when Junk Mail Filter is enabled

Hello,
my friend has a 24" iMac Early 2008 with 10.5.4 and when the JunkMail filter is enabled some times while receiving mail the receiving stops (blocks) on a given message. When he disables the filter this doesn't happen. I have tried reseting the SpamAssassin - problem continues, different settings for Junk filter - no change, create new account and tried receiving mail under it - the same thing. Reinstall the OS but with Archive and preserve - problem stays. Next is clean install but he has a lot of info and settings and it will take a lot of time. There are no connection between the messages on which the receiving stalls - they are different every time.
I have check connection doktor and Activity while receiving blocks but no help at all.
Please advise
Thank you

It is used for sure with Mac OS X Server.
I don't believe that's true; I've never heard of OS X Server shipping with any third-party software such as that. Mail uses their own spam-filtering system which is built-in. There's nothing stopping you or any other user from using a third-party product such as SpamAssassin or SpamSieve, but Apple doesn't ship this with OS X.
Have you tried looking at the specific rules being used in the Spam filtering for Mail and adjusting them or getting rid of those conditions or rules you don't need? Have you tried creating a new User Account and setting up Mail to see if the problem manifests in that account?
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