On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the bottom > of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on." Manually selecting Tools/Spelling shows > the message "Spell check complete." But no mispelled words are marked, > including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh."
It's been a long time since I used KDE / Kmail, at least since I did so seriously. But I seem to recall there is an option in the preferences to set the path to the spell-checker. This may be changes to "/usr/bin/aspell", to ispell or whatever. I would not be surprised if there is at least one other alternate spell-checker by now - maybe ispell is no longer the default? This preference may be centralised in the main KControl options panel, rather than in the Kmail-specific options, assuming I am recalling its existence correctly. Stroller.
