Hey y’all. I can’t get the spellcheck to work. I have set it to a language, but even so it won’t spell check my emails. Any ideas about what I am doing wrong? The below is just a screenshot of my email with misspelt words and no red underlines.
See here Mailspring & Spellcheck not...
On Windows 10, Mailspring version 1.10.8 spell check only works when composing or replying in plain text
On linux (Ubuntu MATE) Mailspring version 1.10.8 spell check works with rich text.
Why?
Solution : when You compose the first email of the day, you click in the object (subject) area, which activates the correction.
As long as Mailspring is not closed, spell check will work.
Spell check in Mailspring uses the Electron session’s built-in spell checker (via session.setSpellCheckerLanguages). A couple of things to check:
- Make sure a language is selected: Go to Preferences > Composer and verify the spell check language is set (not blank). If it’s set to a regional variant your Electron build doesn’t have (e.g.
en-GBbut onlyenis available), it silently does nothing. - Click in the Subject field first: There’s a known quirk where spell check sometimes needs to be “woken up” by focusing the subject field before it activates in the body. This is a side effect of how we throttle spell checking during fast typing.
- Rich text mode: Spell check works in both rich text and plain text modes — if you’re seeing it work only in plain text, that would be a bug worth reporting with your OS and version.
What OS and Mailspring version are you on? That’ll help narrow it down.