How to get Check spelling in SquirrelMail to work on Mac OS X Server 10.4

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Prerequisite: Apple's Developer tools must be installed on the system. It can be found on the installation discs or can be downloaded from
Apple's website.

  • Download ispell-3.3.02.tar.gz from http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/tars/
  • Unpack the downloaded file. If you are using Safari, it might be automatically unpacked
  • cd your_download_location/ispell-3.3.02
  • cp local.h.macos local.h
  • make all
  • sudo make install
  • sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/ispell /sbin/ispell
  • If you have not already done, use SquirrelMail's conf.pl to add plugin squirelspell
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