I use mozilla Thunderbird for e-mail.It has a junk mail filter that is very easy to use and "learns"what is junk and each account has it own junk folder. Has settings for images and doesn’t use ActiveX(a big plus if you ask me!)
I’ve been using it for almost a year now and it catches most of the stuff that is sent my way.There are add-ons that provide extras like RSS reader and Themes and I have found some that allow me to get my hotmail+yahoo mail all in one place.
So in one program I get my mail,RSS newsfeeds,and newsgroups.
-max