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Smarter mail speller

Category: Internet
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Improve mail speller by treating names in the "TO" and "FROM" fields as valid words.

This will reduce speller prompts for non-English names (Like mine)

I bumped into this while using OWA and GMail and I assume this related to any web mail (in desktop mailer you can at least add these names as valid words)

Dekel Israeli

dekeli, Nov 27 2004

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Much needed. You know you are still in Geeksville when your spell-checker doesn't recognize the names on your address list.

sevans, Nov 27 2004

I think that the problem is a good problem. I turned on my spell check on my email, there was a word I wasn't sure how to spell. I also started to think, "Why didn't I always have this on."

After sending 5 or so emails, I decided to turn it off. It finds so many so called "misspellings" I feel that it is more trouble than it is worth.

georgewpotts, Nov 30 2004