Not downloading junk mail?

I am new to using a Macbook and I sent up the mail program to receive email from two different addresses: a gmail account which is setup as a Gmail POP account and an exchange account which is my college email address.
I have had no issues sending and receiving email, however, is there a way to make the mail program not download junk mail from the exchange account? The spam mail goes into a separate folder but I would prefer not to download any email from the server that goes into the folder. I tried looking through the options and haven't seen anything.
I hope someone can help!

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
An Exchange account operates as an IMAP account more-or-less. In Mail, with IMAP accounts, folders cannot be selectively subscribed to. At the minimum the list of messages in each folder the server gives you access to will be synced to your computer, but you can set things so only the message index info is downloaded and not the message content (which is only downloaded as you click to read a certain message). But if you do that, you can only read when connected, and not when Offline.
You might ask the IT dept if the Junk folder could be setup to not be available, except via web access.
Ernie

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