• Anybody here use Claws Mail at all

    From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 13:32:20 2021
    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head
    constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to spam.com on Fri Aug 6 03:02:32 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 13:32:20 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.



    Click on Compose to start a new message. Click on Spelling in the
    Menu, and move down to Options. Make sure the Check While Typing box
    has and X in it.

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to spam.com on Fri Aug 6 04:10:28 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 18:43:20 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 03:02:32 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 13:32:20 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.



    Click on Compose to start a new message. Click on Spelling in the
    Menu, and move down to Options. Make sure the Check While Typing
    box has and X in it.


    Thanks for coming back. That's the problem, no option for "spelling" Extracted aspell & enchant, but maybe they need moving? Claws doesn't
    see a spell checker at all. running V3.17.8 Ubuntu 21.04


    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then Spell
    Checking, and see what you have there.

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 18:43:20 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 03:02:32 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 13:32:20 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.



    Click on Compose to start a new message. Click on Spelling in the
    Menu, and move down to Options. Make sure the Check While Typing box
    has and X in it.


    Thanks for coming back. That's the problem, no option for "spelling"
    Extracted aspell & enchant, but maybe they need moving? Claws doesn't
    see a spell checker at all. running V3.17.8 Ubuntu 21.04

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to spam.com on Fri Aug 6 04:28:03 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 19:21:12 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:10:28 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then Spell Checking, and see what you have there.

    Thanks Johnny

    No Spell Check there either.


    That's strange. I don't remember having to add a spell checker to
    Claws Mail. It just works, and highlights the misspelled word in red.

    I'll see what I can find about that problem.

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 19:35:14 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:28:03 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 19:21:12 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:10:28 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then
    Spell Checking, and see what you have there.

    Thanks Johnny

    No Spell Check there either.


    That's strange. I don't remember having to add a spell checker to
    Claws Mail. It just works, and highlights the misspelled word in red.

    I'll see what I can find about that problem.


    Thanks, appreciate, it was working ok before the laptop crashed & I
    needed to reinstall Ubuntu & various programmes.

    This is the only one giving me greaf/griev/grief! ;-)

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 19:21:12 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:10:28 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then Spell Checking, and see what you have there.

    Thanks Johnny

    No Spell Check there either.

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to spam.com on Fri Aug 6 06:41:38 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 19:35:14 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:28:03 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 19:21:12 +1000
    James Last plays in Miami <no spam@no spam.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:10:28 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then
    Spell Checking, and see what you have there.

    Thanks Johnny

    No Spell Check there either.


    That's strange. I don't remember having to add a spell checker to
    Claws Mail. It just works, and highlights the misspelled word in
    red.

    I'll see what I can find about that problem.


    Thanks, appreciate, it was working ok before the laptop crashed & I
    needed to reinstall Ubuntu & various programmes.

    This is the only one giving me greaf/griev/grief! ;-)


    After searching for the problem I found several people with the same
    problem, but no real solutions. One person recommended installing
    Enchant.

    What version of Claws Mail are you using? Click on Help, and then
    about to find the version.

    Something must have gone wrong during the installation, so I would
    suggest using Synaptic Package Manager to completely remove Claws Mail.

    Then look in you home directory and see if everything pertaining to
    Claws Mail was removed. If it wasn't, delete it.

    Then reinstall Claws Mail.

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  • From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to James Last plays in Miami on Fri Aug 6 16:00:03 2021
    James Last plays in Miami wrote:
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:10:28 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then Spell
    Checking, and see what you have there.

    Thanks Johnny

    No Spell Check there either.

    Ubuntu – Details of package claws-mail in hirsute https://packages.ubuntu.com/en/hirsute/claws-mail

    recommends
    aspell-en
    ...

    Is it installed?

    :~$ apt policy aspell-en
    aspell-en:
    Installed: 2018.04.16-0-1
    ...

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  • From Kirk_Rockstein@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 14:52:15 2021
    On 2021-08-06, James Last plays in Miami <no> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.





    open file along this path:

    $HOME/.claws-mail/clawsrc

    check for these settings:

    enable_aspell=1
    dictionary=en
    alt_dictionary=en
    use_alternate_dict=0
    check_while_typing=1
    recheck_when_changing_dict=1
    misspelled_color=#ff0000
    use_both_dicts=0

    Run in terminal:

    sudo dpkg -l | grep aspell

    You should see these packages are installed:

    aspell
    aspell-en
    libaspell-dev
    libaspell

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to James on Fri Aug 6 08:52:39 2021
    James wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.

    I use Claws for news when I'm in Raspbian. I read somewhere that it
    needs to be compiled for spellcheck. Where/How did you get your Claws?

    The one in my Mint repo/s is 3.17 from Ub universe. I don't have the
    RPi up just now to see that one.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 7 07:04:00 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:00:03 +0300, Andrei Z. posted:-

    James Last plays in Miami wrote:
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:10:28 -0500, Johnny posted:-

    Go to Configuration in the Menu and then Preferences, and then
    Spell Checking, and see what you have there.

    Thanks Johnny

    No Spell Check there either.

    Ubuntu – Details of package claws-mail in hirsute https://packages.ubuntu.com/en/hirsute/claws-mail

    recommends
    aspell-en
    ...

    Is it installed?

    :~$ apt policy aspell-en
    aspell-en:
    Installed: 2018.04.16-0-1
    ...

    Thanks for the help. Yes, installed.

    Doing a Dr Google, seems to be a common issue, and prior to reinstall
    of the OS here (Ubuntu 21-04) all worked fine LOL

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 7 06:57:10 2021
    On 6 Aug 2021 14:52:15 GMT, Kirk_Rockstein posted:-

    On 2021-08-06, James Last plays in Miami <no> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.





    open file along this path:

    $HOME/.claws-mail/clawsrc

    check for these settings:

    enable_aspell=1
    dictionary=en
    alt_dictionary=en
    use_alternate_dict=0
    check_while_typing=1
    recheck_when_changing_dict=1
    misspelled_color=#ff0000
    use_both_dicts=0

    Run in terminal:

    sudo dpkg -l | grep aspell

    You should see these packages are installed:

    aspell
    aspell-en
    libaspell-dev
    libaspell



    Thnks Kirk, getting permission denied to open that file. Not really au
    fait with what to do to overcome that, advice?

    Appreciate the help!

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 7 06:53:31 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 08:52:39 -0700, Mike Easter posted:-

    I use Claws for news when I'm in Raspbian. I read somewhere that it
    needs to be compiled for spellcheck. Where/How did you get your
    Claws?

    Flatpack in Ubuntu

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  • From Kirk_Rockstein@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 21:46:57 2021
    On 2021-08-06, James Last plays in Miami <no> wrote:
    On 6 Aug 2021 14:52:15 GMT, Kirk_Rockstein posted:-

    On 2021-08-06, James Last plays in Miami <no> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head
    constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.





    open file along this path:

    $HOME/.claws-mail/clawsrc

    check for these settings:

    enable_aspell=1
    dictionary=en
    alt_dictionary=en
    use_alternate_dict=0
    check_while_typing=1
    recheck_when_changing_dict=1
    misspelled_color=#ff0000
    use_both_dicts=0

    Run in terminal:

    sudo dpkg -l | grep aspell

    You should see these packages are installed:

    aspell
    aspell-en
    libaspell-dev
    libaspell



    Thnks Kirk, getting permission denied to open that file. Not really au
    fait with what to do to overcome that, advice?

    Appreciate the help!


    Sounds like your permissions are not right ..you should have permissions
    to that file.

    Run from term:
    ls -al $HOME/.claws-mail

    You should see your user in output for the files therein.
    If not ..run this from user term/console:
    sudo chown -vR $USER:$USER $HOME/.claws-mail

    Substitute your real username for $USER and The full path for $HOME
    in the above example command. Example in my case looks like:
    sudo chown -vR kirk:kirk /home/kirk/.claws-mail

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 7 11:28:19 2021
    On 6 Aug 2021 21:46:57 GMT, Kirk_Rockstein posted:-

    On 2021-08-06, James Last plays in Miami <no> wrote:
    On 6 Aug 2021 14:52:15 GMT, Kirk_Rockstein posted:-

    On 2021-08-06, James Last plays in Miami <no> wrote:

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding
    head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite
    atrochious atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.





    open file along this path:

    $HOME/.claws-mail/clawsrc

    check for these settings:

    enable_aspell=1
    dictionary=en
    alt_dictionary=en
    use_alternate_dict=0
    check_while_typing=1
    recheck_when_changing_dict=1
    misspelled_color=#ff0000
    use_both_dicts=0

    Run in terminal:

    sudo dpkg -l | grep aspell

    You should see these packages are installed:

    aspell
    aspell-en
    libaspell-dev
    libaspell



    Thnks Kirk, getting permission denied to open that file. Not
    really au fait with what to do to overcome that, advice?

    Appreciate the help!


    Sounds like your permissions are not right ..you should have
    permissions to that file.

    Run from term:
    ls -al $HOME/.claws-mail

    You should see your user in output for the files therein.
    If not ..run this from user term/console:
    sudo chown -vR $USER:$USER $HOME/.claws-mail

    Substitute your real username for $USER and The full path for $HOME
    in the above example command. Example in my case looks like:
    sudo chown -vR kirk:kirk /home/kirk/.claws-mail

    Thanks, my user name there, anything else I need to do?

    Apologies for these questions!







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  • From Aragorn@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 7 16:32:36 2021
    On 07.08.2021 at 06:53, James Last plays in Miami scribbled:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 08:52:39 -0700, Mike Easter posted:-

    I use Claws for news when I'm in Raspbian. I read somewhere that
    it needs to be compiled for spellcheck. Where/How did you get your
    Claws?

    Flatpack in Ubuntu

    That would explain things. FlatPak and Snap packages are containerized
    and don't have access to all system libraries and tools.

    The packager of the FlatPak Claws package would have had to include a spellchecker with it, but I guess they didn't bother. Maybe the
    packager is a resident of the US, eh? ;)


    Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
    A: Trilingual.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
    A: Bilingual.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
    A: An American.


    :p

    --
    With respect,
    = Aragorn =

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Aragorn on Sat Aug 7 21:00:03 2021
    On 07/08/2021 17:32, Aragorn wrote:
    On 07.08.2021 at 06:53, James Last plays in Miami scribbled:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 08:52:39 -0700, Mike Easter posted:-

    I use Claws for news when I'm in Raspbian. I read somewhere that
    it needs to be compiled for spellcheck. Where/How did you get your
    Claws?

    Flatpack in Ubuntu

    That would explain things. FlatPak and Snap packages are containerized
    and don't have access to all system libraries and tools.

    The packager of the FlatPak Claws package would have had to include a spellchecker with it, but I guess they didn't bother. Maybe the
    packager is a resident of the US, eh? ;)


    Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
    A: Trilingual.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
    A: Bilingual.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
    A: An American.


    :p

    The way I heard the last line it was something like
    "... a person who can't speak his own language..."

    c.f. https://youtu.be/UCo0hSFAWOc

    --
    Mike R.
    Home: http://alpha.mike-r.com/
    QOTD: http://alpha.mike-r.com/qotd.php
    No Micro$oft products were used in the URLs above, or in preparing this message.
    Recommended reading: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before
    and: http://alpha.mike-r.com/jargon/T/top-post.html
    Missile address: N31.7624/E34.9691

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Aragorn on Sat Aug 7 10:30:34 2021
    On 8/7/21 7:32 AM, Aragorn wrote:
    On 07.08.2021 at 06:53, James Last plays in Miami scribbled:

    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 08:52:39 -0700, Mike Easter posted:-

    I use Claws for news when I'm in Raspbian. I read somewhere that
    it needs to be compiled for spellcheck. Where/How did you get your
    Claws?

    Flatpack in Ubuntu

    That would explain things. FlatPak and Snap packages are containerized
    and don't have access to all system libraries and tools.

    The packager of the FlatPak Claws package would have had to include a spellchecker with it, but I guess they didn't bother. Maybe the
    packager is a resident of the US, eh? ;)


    Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
    A: Trilingual.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
    A: Bilingual.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
    A: An American.


    :p


    Proposed amendment.

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language poorly?
    A: An American.


    bliss in San Francisco, California - Lots of American
    English, comprehension of older UK variants, little bits of
    German, of Japanese, of Chinese, & some Espanol.

    --
    bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 8 07:20:40 2021
    On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 21:00:03 +0300, Henry Crun posted:-

    The way I heard the last line it was something like
    "... a person who can't speak his own language..."

    I was on a bus tour of Denmark a few years ago, and an American guy got
    back on the bus after visiting a Museum; he told us he was very happy
    because the exhibits had captions "in American".

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 8 07:18:49 2021
    On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 16:32:36 +0200, Aragorn posted:-

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
    A: An American.


    LOL.

    BTW any easy solution?

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  • From spam.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 8 17:31:14 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 13:32:20 +1000, James Last plays in Miami posted:-

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.



    Looks like solved.

    Removed from Flatpack install & reinstall with the Gnome installer,
    which includes the spell chequer (checker LOL)

    Thanks guys for the help here. appreciate it!

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  • From Jonathan N. Little@21:1/5 to James Last plays in Miami on Sun Aug 8 09:55:46 2021
    James Last plays in Miami wrote:
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 13:32:20 +1000, James Last plays in Miami posted:-

    Having trouble getting it to see aspell. <scratches balding head
    constantly.>

    Consequently no spell checking,and my spelling is quite atrochious
    atrocius whatever.LOL

    All help appreciated.



    Looks like solved.

    Removed from Flatpack install & reinstall with the Gnome installer,
    which includes the spell chequer (checker LOL)

    Thanks guys for the help here. appreciate it!


    I have found issues like yours with other packages as flatpak or snaps.
    They be be newer versions but can have odd issues compared to native
    installs.

    --
    Take care,

    Jonathan
    -------------------
    LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
    http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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  • From Aragorn@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 8 17:18:52 2021
    On 08.08.2021 at 07:18, James Last plays in Miami scribbled:

    On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 16:32:36 +0200, Aragorn posted:-

    Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language?
    A: An American.


    LOL.

    BTW any easy solution?

    No, I'm afraid not. Like I said, those applications run in containers,
    and so the spellchecker should have been installed inside the same
    container, along with the main Claws Mail package.

    I suppose there would be a way to hack this, but then you'd have
    to find a spellchecker compatible with the libraries that are shipped
    as part of the Claws Mail FlatPak, and then install that inside the
    directory where the Claws Mail files are.

    That said, personally I wouldn't touch that junk with a ten-foot pole.
    I'm running Manjaro here and I avoid Snaps, FlatPaks and AppImages like
    the plague. :-/


    --
    With respect,
    = Aragorn =

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