IPhone, .Mac IMAP, and Junk Mail!

I have seen lots of posts regarding this, but no definite answers. It seems like a lot of people are wondering if there is a way to deal with this issue...
The .Mac email does a fine job of filtering junk mail. When I check it through the mac.com website or on my MBP everything is fine. However my iPhone constantly recieves the junk emails and they are not removed until checked by one of the previous two methods.
Is there a way to prevent the junk mail from being sent to the iPhone besides leaving my computer on all day and forcing the hard drive to stay on which is the most asinine idea I have ever heard of?
p.s. I'm not talking about junk mail getting sent to the "junk" folder under .Mac on the iPhone. I'm talking about it getting sent straight to the inbox. I know that you can uncheck the "keep junk mail stored on server" setting to stop it from but getting sent to the junk folder on the iphone but I don't care about that. I want messages that .Mac would filter out when I check them on the mac.com to not be sent to my iPhone only being deleted AFTER I log into mail.mac.com
In other words are we stuck with .Mac only running junk filter when the website is connected?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: ryancousin

I have a junk mail folder under my .Mac account on my iPhone. If you enable Junk mail filtering on your .mac account on the website and also have selected move it to the junk folder then .mac will create a junk folder which like any other folder is IMAP, meaning it will show up in your iphone.
My problem is that junk mail that .mac on the website knows is junk gets sent to my inbox on my iphone. Once I go in and check my mail from the website it dumps all the junk mail. If I then go back to my iphone and refresh the inbox of course all of the junk mail will now be gone. But this is not how it should be. If .mac has a junk filter in place at the server it should run without having to open mail.mac.com.

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