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I just wrote a small plugin that I call “WP-MailAkismetStatus”.

Basically, it just checks the Akismet spam queue for spam comments periodically. If there is any, it sends an eMail to the blog admin with the spam comments’ contents along with the author name, the URI and the date. A link is provided at the bottom of each eMail to go directly to your Akismet spam queue on your WordPress dashboard.

On activation, the cron job is scheduled on a daily basis for the next day at 7 AM.  If you want to change this time, you’ll have to look at the code. If there is spam in the queue at the time you activate the plugin, an initial status mail will be sent. No mail will be sent if there is no spam.

Let me know what you think.

Download the plugin (v1.0.2)!

BTW: The cron job will be unscheduled by deactivating the plugin.

Additionally, the plugin WP-Crontrol is a good choice to manage WP cron jobs.

Release History

[Update from 2009-02-19]

• v1.0.2:
  • Added WP version check that delivers the correct Akismet link at the bottom of the notification eMail.

2009-12-15

• v1.0.1:
  • Added an additional Akismet link at the end of the eMail to work with WP 2.7.

2008-12-19

• v1.0:
  • Initial release.