Spam in Apple mail & Comcast mail

My e-mail address in Apple mail is the same as my Comcast e-mail address. Yet somehow I receive much more spam in my Apple mailbox than in my Comcast website mailbox.
Does anybody know why this happens? It seems like spam that has already been filtered by Comcast shouldn't reach my Apple mailbox. Is there some way I can configure Apple mail to receive the same mail that my Comcast website mailbox receives?
Thanks.

Yet somehow I receive much more spam in my Apple
mailbox than in my Comcast website mailbox.
What is your setting in Mail for removing messages from the server when downloaded by Mail which is under the Advanced tab for the account preferences?
The Mail.app or any email client downloads messages that are available at the server with a POP type account. If you have the Mail.app set to remove messages from the server when downloaded, any messages downloaded by the Mail.app are removed from the server at that time so they won't be available when checking the account's Inbox mailbox using webmail access with a browser.
When Comcast filters and marks message as junk at the server, are these messages moved by Comcast to a junk mailbox stored on the server separate from the account's Inbox mailbox?

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X-Ironport-Anti-Spam-Filtered:           true
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Mime-Version:           1.0
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Hi Hiroto,
Thanks for the reply.
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It is caused by a rule within Apple Mail. Check Preference > Rules.
If Personal Antispam has disappeared, it's because the product was discountinued. See this link for that info plus some instructions on how to deal with what you are seeing: https://support.intego.com/entries/21639926-Personal-Antispam-Discontinued
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Hello Jamie.
These 'phantom' blank emails appear to be the root of the problem
as once they are manually removed from our server-side inbox
(either through Apple Mail's 'Get Info' / 'Remove from Server' function,
or via our ISPs webmail facility), the email starts picking up mail
automatically again–immediately, without any other intervention
other than clicking 'Get Mail'. Until they are removed, Apple Mail
will NOT collect any more mail, automatically or manually through
'Get Mail'.
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If set to right away, does this have any effect?
One of their operatives suggest I contact Apple as his Windows
PC email still works and retrieves mail when these blank
phantom messages reach his server-side inbox waiting to be collected.
Of course - especially if this operative is using Microsoft's Outlook or OE which usually don't have problems downloading anything including viruses, adware and spyware.
I'm not sure why these "Ghost" spam messages cause this problem with the Mail.app but these are obviously sent by a spammer to cause problems.
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