[kde-linux] Spell-checker for kmail is off

[Bruce Bales]

On Saturday 08 March 2008 14:57:35 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 08 March 2008 18:23:29 Bruce Bales wrote:
> > For years my kmail checked my spelling as I wrote and underlined
> > misspelled words.  Now it doesn't do that and at the bottom of an email,
> > it says Spellchecker: off.  I can't find any place to change it to 'on'.
> >
> > Kubuntu 7-10 386
> > kmail --version
> > Qt: 3.3.7
> > KDE: 3.5.8
> > KMail: 1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405)
>
> I've had this happen once or twice after updates.  The easiest way is to go
> to ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc and under the Composer section you will find
> the line
>
> autoSpellChecking=false
>
> Change it to true.  Next time you start kmail it should be working again.
>
> Anne

Thanks, Ann.  I kneww it would be something easy, but couldn't find itt.
Caught both of those in the above line.
bruce