[arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?
Guys, With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling errorssss. Eggsample: lsdfjhosijg Spellcheck with kmaaail: "Spell check complete." WTF?? If you can confirm, I'll bug it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling errorssss. ..... If you can confirm, I'll bug it.
Just tried here, and it didn't work. Should I have configured something before trying? Also, it complained about not being able to use KWallet to store the password. Even though I have KWallet installed. -- Guilherme M. Nogueira "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
On Monday 23 November 2009 18:05:04 and regarding:
Just tried here, and it didn't work. Should I have configured something before trying?
Also, it complained about not being able to use KWallet to store the password. Even though I have KWallet installed.
Spell check should be enabled by default as long as you installed a spell check dictionary (I think you get it by default) With kwallet. If you're the only user of the box and you have reasonable security habbits, then I would just turn kwallet off and let kmail and the rest store the passowrds in their files (they are encrypted, just not to the extent wallet does). I find wallet to be a complete pain. Even if I set it to always remember my password, I still get prompted to enter it at the least expected times. I tried to live with it on this latest install, but that relationship ended in divorce ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
I find wallet to be a complete pain. Even if I set it to always remember my password, I still get prompted to enter it at the least expected times. I tried to live with it on this latest install, but that relationship ended in divorce ;-)
FYI - I've set the kwallet password to nothing, and it's seemed to work out nicely, as it no longer prompts me for the wallet password at inopportune times. In theory this is less secure. But since no one can be logged into my box as me without my account password anyway, in reality there's no way anyone can access my kwallet passwords without having my account password first. Maybe give this a shot? HTH, DR
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:05, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: FYI - I've set the kwallet password to nothing, and it's seemed to work out nicely, as it no longer prompts me for the wallet password at inopportune times.
In theory this is less secure. But since no one can be logged into my box as me without my account password anyway, in reality there's no way anyone can access my kwallet passwords without having my account password first. Maybe give this a shot?
HTH,
DR
If you're running any services that face an open network, you are in theory vulnerable to an exploit in the service. Also, there have been exploits in web browsers like firefox that would give user-level access. This could potentially give the attacker access to your wallet without your user password, depending on the exploit(s) used. In this case, *all* your passwords will be comprimised. Using a password manager without a password itself is bad for your security.
On 11/25/2009 10:51 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:05, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: FYI - I've set the kwallet password to nothing, and it's seemed to work out nicely, as it no longer prompts me for the wallet password at inopportune times.
In theory this is less secure. But since no one can be logged into my box as me without my account password anyway, in reality there's no way anyone can access my kwallet passwords without having my account password first. Maybe give this a shot?
HTH,
DR
If you're running any services that face an open network, you are in theory vulnerable to an exploit in the service. Also, there have been exploits in web browsers like firefox that would give user-level access. This could potentially give the attacker access to your wallet without your user password, depending on the exploit(s) used. In this case, *all* your passwords will be comprimised. Using a password manager without a password itself is bad for your security.
Good point. I started using kwallet without a password so that I wouldn't get prompted every time I used command line SVN. (Long story short: I configured SVN to integrate with kwallet, instead of having it cache my password on disk.) But since I mostly use SVN from Eclipse anyway (which has its own password cache) this really isn't such a big hassle after all. Thanks, DR
David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling errorssss. Eggsample:
works here... do you have the aspell dictionary for your language installed?
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 01:03:35 and regarding:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling errorssss. Eggsample:
works here... do you have the aspell dictionary for your language installed?
Yes, I have a spell installed, the works. I think I'll just blow my ~/.kde directory away and start over. I must have pulled in a config file with an incorrect path in it. (wouldn't surprise me at all) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
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A Rojas
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Daenyth Blank
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David C. Rankin
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David Rosenstrauch
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Guilherme M. Nogueira