[Dave N]

Is there any way to get Thunderbird to do the "check spelling as you type" function like Mail, Word, Safari, etc.?

[Krypton]

Not currently, but it is heavily requested and thus planned for a future release, but I don't think there is a designated time frame.

[CatOne]

Originally posted by Krypton:
Not currently, but it is heavily requested and thus planned for a future release, but I don't think there is a designated time frame.

I assume this is because it's not a cocoa app?

[Krypton]

Originally posted by CatOne:
I assume this is because it's not a cocoa app?

It's because firstly it's a cross platform app (so their spell checking implementation will have to be cross platform) and that the text areas are XUL like the rest of the app.

[Probably completely wrong on that last count]

[Krypton]

FYI Thunderbird nightlies now have check spelling as you type, and it works quite well.

[Mojo-ike]

if you are to scared to try a nightly build:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or.../latest-trunk/

you can use this:

http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/#ext8

i used it for what seems like ever before i discoverd that they finally got around to working it into thunderbird. it does the job, but it has more than a few quirks.

if i was you, i would use the thunderbird nightly build.