I noticed that squirelspell is not working on Mac OS X Server. I found an outdated article at this site. Using that article and searching internet, I compiled this article. I hope this will be useful to many OS X Server administrators.
–Updated to add step to symlink ispell – May 1, 2005–
I also posted these instructions at
http://www.cuddapahonline.com/sspell.htm
Check spelling in SquirrelMail on Mac OS X Server 10.3.9
- Download ispell-3.3.00.tar.gz from http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/tars/
- Unpack the downloaded file. If you are using Safari, it will be automatically unpacked
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cd your_download_location/ispell-3.3.00
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cp local.h.macos local.h
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Open local.h using your favorite editor and delete the following line:
define USG /* Define on System V or if term.c won’t compile */
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Create a new file called fixispell-a (no extenstion) using your favorite editor
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Copy, Paste source from
http://www.cuddapahonline.com/fixispell-a
Save fixispell-a.
This is also available at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-01/msg00686.html -
make all
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sudo make install
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sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/ispell /sbin/ispell
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If you have not already done, use SquirrelMail’s conf.pl to add plugin squirelspell
E-mail your comments/suggestions to [email protected]
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A new version of ispell (ispell-3.3.01.tar.gz) is available now. If you download this verison, you don’t need to create fixispell-a. But when you do a "make install", it will fail. Do a "make install" again and it will work.
Hi there
Thanks for this – it works for me.
Have you got any more squirrelmail tips?
Steve
For updated instructions, please see
http://www.cuddapahonline.com/sspell.htm