Source evidence

Automatic deletion of old spam folder?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · support · 2026-06-01T13:02:00+00:00

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garvin89 resolved

Quick question about spam retention. Does the plugin automatically delete old spam comments after a certain period, or do they just sit in the spam folder forever? Just tryna keep my database clean tbh. Akismet automatically deletes spam comments once they’re 15 days old.

Commercial Context

Opportunity

trust and abuse-prevention operations

Spam abuse-prevention assurance for keeping sites trusted, protected, and recoverable

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams

Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

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Analysis

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Summary: Automatic deletion of old spam folder?: users show security, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence quote: Automatic deletion of old spam folder?

Affected feature: spam

security performance easy spam

Plugin

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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

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Christopher Finke 2026-06-01T16:26:00+00:00

Akismet automatically deletes spam comments once they’re 15 days old.