Title: Spam Problems Using Comment Email Reply
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Spam Problems Using Comment Email Reply

 *  Resolved [kwgaynor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwgaynor/)
 * (@kwgaynor)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/)
 * Since installing and activating Comment Email Reply, I get an incredible amount
   of spam via email. Every email is entitled “[Living Vintage] New reply to your
   Comment”. Fortunately, Askismet (I think) is catching all of this spam, and it’s
   going directly into my spam folder within my WordPress admin. However, deleting
   50+ emails a day gets tiresome.
 * Also, more worrisome than that is the fact that one of my blog followers reported
   today: “I got 13 replies from you living vintage host referring to a reply that
   it said I made to your web site. 1st — I did not send a reply. I have no idea
   what their message means. Hope it is not a virus.”
 * Can this problem be fixed? If not, I will have to deactivate and delete the Commment
   Email Reply. This would be unfortunate because I like the functionality.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-email-reply/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-email-reply/)

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 *  Plugin Author [kilozwo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilozwo/)
 * (@kilozwo)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/#post-4749589)
 * Since the plugin generates mails on every inserted comment to your page, it will
   also do it when spam-comments are inserted in to your system. The plugin doesn’t
   check wheather spam or not triggered the mail.
 * I will think about, if its possible to add this functionality.
 *  Thread Starter [kwgaynor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwgaynor/)
 * (@kwgaynor)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/#post-4749592)
 * I understood the plugin was to email commenters when **I**, as blog owner, reply.
   However, why would a blog subscriber who didn’t comment at all be getting an 
   email?
 *  Plugin Author [kilozwo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilozwo/)
 * (@kilozwo)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/#post-4749594)
 * No, the plugin sends a mail to every comment author whos comment got a reply.
 * On every reply, the plugin sends a mail to the emailadress given in the comment
   where the reply belongs to.
 * It can only happen if the subscribers email adress is saved with an comment.
 *  Thread Starter [kwgaynor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwgaynor/)
 * (@kwgaynor)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/#post-4749595)
 * You’re not understanding my question. The person who got the email did **NOT **
   comment on my blog. He looked at the blog post, but he did not comment.
 *  [damian5000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damian5000/)
 * (@damian5000)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/#post-4749767)
 * This plugin is virtually useless unless you add functionality to only include
   approved comments. No users want to get 50 spam emails. What’s the point?
 * I don’t mean to sound harsh. What I’m wondering is if there’s a way you can adjust
   this plugin so it only emails with approved comments (manually approved & automatically
   approved both)

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 * Last reply from: [damian5000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damian5000/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-problems-using-comment-email-reply/#post-4749767)
 * Status: resolved