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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:36 pm    Post subject: Mozilla Mail and spelling Reply with quote

Hi everyone.

I was wondering if there is any way to implement spell checking in mozilla mail. I have just set up a dozen different users with this as their default email client. I just assumed there was a spell checker... after all, evolution, kmail and netscape all had them... I really need to come up with something here.

I tried to emerge mozilla 1.4 (I am using 1.3-r2) to see if they have implemented this yet, but it fails (I have that in another post).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Chris
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/

Hope this helps.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello bmph8ter,

I did come across that, and clicked their install link for mozilla 1.3 and it looked like it installed it -- but it didn't seem to work.

I do not get a "spell" button as is depicted in their screenshot.

You have any idea what is wrong? I even went to their CVS site and tried the previous version of this xpi for mozilla 1.3.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chris
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you install it as root? Then, you restart Mozilla (after the install) as root again and the spell icon should appear in your compose winow.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah.

That is exactly what I have done, on two different machines now, and it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was able to compile mozilla 1.4, and add the spell checker and it worked.

Hypothoses:

1) The .xpi for mozilla 1.3 is kaput.
2) Enigmail conflicted with the spell checker (since enigmail was compiled in on my 1.3 install and not on my 1.4).

I do appreciate your help, though.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glad you finally got it working. I would actually think it was probably enigmail. I can't say for sure though, as none of my installs have had it.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:02 pm    Post subject: Enigmail and Spell check Reply with quote

It was, in fact, enigmail. I have tried it now with differing versions, and on all accounts it would only work if enigmail was not compiled in.

Just FYI to anyone. I did submit a bug report at mozdev.org... we will see if anyone feels like addressing that :).

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