Akismet Anti-spam vs Mail Queues by PBCI

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Send mail using SMTP without exceeding the the rate allowed by your mail provider(s). Mail can be sent using multiple user logins/passwords to give fault tolerance and make each mail message somewhat unique so that it is less likely to be flagged as SPAM/UCE by either your or the downstream mail providers. Messages can be automatically resent when the plugin detects Non-delivery messages (NDRs) returned from mail sent by the plugin. Email can be throttled per outbound SMTP account. Limits can be set for maximum number of recipients per hour and per day. Features Sends mail via SMTP Send mail no faster than the configured number of recipients per hour and day. Keeps you in complience with your providers email sending limits. Configure multiple SMTP accounts to use for sending messages (Gmail, MSN, Go-daddy, etc) Process non-delivery messages and automatically resend messages Keep record of sent mail messages so that you can prove to your provider you didn’t send SPAM Automatically stops sending email when errors encountered, auotmatically restarts after configured period of time Mail sending statistics display Benefits Using multiple email accounts makes it less likely that your email will be incorrectly flagged as SPAM by downstream providers Use in combination with other email newsletter, sending and formatting WordPress plug-ins Reduces non-delivered mail due to invalid SPAM flagging or exceeding near or downstream provider sending/receiving limits More information can be found on our web site. Notes Non-Delivery Processing Non-Delivery (NDR) messaging processing note: plugin should recognize common non-delivery formats. But, because non-deliveries are free form, and can be highly customized or specifically localized the plugin may not recognize the message. If you provide a sample non-delivery message we can make the plug-in a little smarter.