I recently migrated from Blue Mail to the Evolution groupware suite on Linux. Since making the switch, I haven't looked back. Evolution is the best combination of a modern UI with the features required to manage efficiently all of my email accounts (and then some).

A few days after starting my journey with this tool, I ran into a bit of a conundrum -- spell check. Evolution has a built-in spell checker for both manual and automatic options. Although the manual option worked fine, enabling theCheck spelling while I typeoption did nothing.

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I decided it was time to investigate.

Fortunately, my sleuthing didn't take long, and I realized there was a missing piece to the puzzle. Said package is Hunspell, which is an open-source spell checker, morphological analyzer library, and command-line tool. Without this piece of software, Evolution isn't capable of running an automaticspell as you typespellcheck.

Ergo, it must be installed.

Let me show you how.

How to enable Check spelling while you type

What you'll need:To install Hunspell, you'll need a running instance of a Linux distribution and a user with sudo privileges. I will demonstrate this on both the Ubuntu and Fedora distributions.

sudo apt-get install hunspell -y

sudo dnf install hunspell -y

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Enable Evolution's automatic spellcheck

Finally, we can enable the automatic spell check in Evolution and it will work as expected. Here's how.

The automatic spellchecking should now work. As you compose an email, any misspelled word will be underlined in red. You can right-click that word to see recommendations. Select a recommendation and it will automatically be changed for you.

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Congratulations, you can now rely on Hunspell and Evolution to keep your spelling in check.

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