Stopping spam mail

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  gautic01 · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 10:10 am

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  On March 9, 2014, I received 300 spam mails in my inbox. Having used the setting “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” this does not seem to function. Looking for ways to stop this flow of spam mails to my blog.

  Gautic 01

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 10:15 am

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  Were the spam comments sent to spam, or were they messages via a Contact Form?

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  gautic01 · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 11:43 am

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  Thank you for your question. The spam emails are mentioned at the top of the dashboard where it says that Akismet is protecting your blog with information on the total number of spam mails blocked so far. Then there is the remark that there are a certain number of comments marked as spam at present, in my case 300. They appear as comments.
  If I press the number of spams they appear as comments to be removed, which then has to be done manually.

  Gautic 01

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 17, 2014 at 6:09 pm

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  @gautic01 – and you will continue to get these unwanted comments unless you take the actions that auxclass and I told you in this thread.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unwanted-spam-comments#post-1683312