Thunderbird upgrade breaks spellcheck

[Jamon Camisso]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 1.5 and now it marks every word as
> misspelled while composing (except capitalized words). While my spelling
> is usually not too good, it's not _that_ bad.
> 
> I have the en-US and en-CA dictionaries installed, it "sees" both  and
> lets me switch between them. But regardless it still marks everything as
> misspelled. Is there any way to troubleshoot this?
> 
> Thanks!

I think you need either apsell or myspell or both. Pretty sure it is 
aspell. You can also use any dictionary off this page:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html

Hope this helps, I recall having the same problem when I upgraded.

Jamon

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