Wrongful alert displays on “Comments” admin page

Hi,

We are seeing an alert notice that is wrongfully displayed on the “Comments” admin dashboard page.

The issue is Akismet checks if the current API key is valid at this line: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/akismet/tags/4.2.1/class.akismet-admin.php#L1081.

But it doesn’t do any checks with this information because it is not saved into a local variable like $key.

For some background, our Akismet API key was invalid for a brief time so the alert code was saved into the ‘akismet_alert_code’ and the ‘akismet_alert_msg’ options.

However, now that our API key is valid again, we are still seeing the previous alert on the “Comments” admin dashboard page.

To fix this, we would recommend before displaying the alert at this block: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/akismet/tags/4.2.1/class.akismet-admin.php?marks=1083-1088#L1081

You should check if the key returns ‘valid’. If not, display the alert block. You can also delete the ‘akismet_alert_code’ option if the API key is valid here as well.

I can send a PR for review if you have a public Github repo.

Let me know.