Title: Problems detecting spam
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems detecting spam

 *  [Poco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poco/)
 * (@poco)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-detecting-spam/)
 * I’ve recently updated to the latest WordPress and Akismet plugin. Since the upgrade
   a lot of spam is getting through temporarily. That is, I get emails to moderate
   comments, but when I go to mark them a spam they are either in the trash or spam
   folder. This wouldn’t be a problem except that I get many thousands of spam comments
   in a month, and that is a lot of email notifications.
 * When I check the blog, there is a message about how Akismet is having trouble
   and comments are being held for moderation, but when I check my Akismet configuration
   everything is green and running fine.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/)

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 *  [tonny@debug.dk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonnydebugdk/)
 * (@tonnydebugdk)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-detecting-spam/#post-3478719)
 * i had issues to after upgrade it seemd i had to flush the memcache and then go
   to settings to enable the akismet again:
 * [http://MAIN_BLOG_DOMAIN/wp-admin/admin.php?page=akismet-key-config](http://MAIN_BLOG_DOMAIN/wp-admin/admin.php?page=akismet-key-config)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-detecting-spam/#post-3478719)
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