Yesterday and today, Macintouch ran more details about the Mail.app crashes which are more clearly connected to Junk Mail filtering. I haven’t had the problem for quite some time, since I — like many of these people — realized through personal experience and similar accounts that certain emails seem to corrupt the Junk Mail preference setting. Resetting it does the trick, and avoiding emails that have no title, body, etc. Just delete those.
I realize that my half-dozen readers are bored of this topic by now, if they ever cared. But I realize that finding others (anonymous is fine) who are suffering the same annoyances does help me feel better. Misery loves company, or more accurately in this case, I’m just glad to know it’s not just me, or some weird thing that I screwed up. Computers still have quite a bit of opaqueness to them for most users, including me, so it’s reassuring to be sure that these glitches are not because PEBCAK.
PEBCAK, by the way, stands for Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. You figure it out.