bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Quiliro]

I installed hunspell and enchant to use the spell checker.

Claws-mail will not work with spell checker. I get an error message
every time i create a new mail message:
No se puede iniciar el corrector ortográfico.
No se pudo inicializar el diccionario Ninguno:
(null)
No se pudo inicializar el corrector Ninguno.

That says that the spell checker could not be started. And that the
dictionary none could not be started.

"claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support"
"you can't add it afterwards"
That is what Claws-Mail's main developer said.

I guess guix does not build claws-mail with libenchant support by
default.
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Saluton,
Quiliro
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bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Leo Famulari]

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Quiliro wrote:
> That says that the spell checker could not be started. And that the
> dictionary none could not be started.
> 
> "claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support"
> "you can't add it afterwards"
> That is what Claws-Mail's main developer said.
> 
> I guess guix does not build claws-mail with libenchant support by
> default.

Claws-mail is built with support for libenchant:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/mail.scm#n928

So, there must be another problem.

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bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Catonano]

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Quiliro,

2017-03-21 20:04 GMT+01:00 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>:

>
> Claws-mail is built with support for libenchant:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/mail.scm#n928
>
> So, there must be another problem.
>

one thing you can do is launching Claws-mail from a terminal rather than
clicking on its icon

That way you can see the log and if there are any errors/warnings, you can
copy and paste them and report them

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bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Quiliro]

The only error I get with:
claws-mail --debug
is about spamassassin
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply?

Saluton,
Quiliro
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bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Catonano]

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2017-03-22 10:44 GMT+01:00 Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net>:

> The only error I get with:
> claws-mail --debug
> is about spamassassin
>

I would try without the "--debug"" part

Just launch it with

claws-mail

then, repeat the steps that produce the error

When the error is reproduced, some meaningful output could show up in the
terminal

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bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Quiliro]

El Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:51:34 +0100
Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> escribió:

> 2017-03-22 10:44 GMT+01:00 Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net>:
> 
> > The only error I get with:
> > claws-mail --debug
> > is about spamassassin
> >
> 
> I would try without the "--debug"" part
> 
> Just launch it with
> 
> claws-mail
> 
> then, repeat the steps that produce the error
> 
> When the error is reproduced, some meaningful output could show up in
> the terminal

The error is not produce. It just exists. I tryed without
--debug
and I get no other error. By the way, it reported spamassasin not as an
error but as a warning.

-- 
Example of rude top posting:

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply?

Saluton,
Quiliro
0987631031

bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net> writes:

> The error is not produce. It just exists. I tryed without
> --debug
> and I get no other error.

Another option is to start claws-mail, record the process ID, then
attach strace with “strace -f -p $PID”, and then to perform the action
that triggers the error.

Maybe claws looks for things in invalid directories; in that case
“strace” should be able to confirm this.

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bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Quiliro]

El Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:57:14 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> escribió:

> Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net> writes:
> 
> > The error is not produce. It just exists. I tryed without
> > --debug
> > and I get no other error.  
> 
> Another option is to start claws-mail, record the process ID, then
> attach strace with “strace -f -p $PID”, and then to perform the action
> that triggers the error.
> 
> Maybe claws looks for things in invalid directories; in that case
> “strace” should be able to confirm this.


Repetitions of:

[pid 18261] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=14675,
tv_nsec=799818077}) = 0 [pid 18261] poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN},
{fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN},
{fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 8, 250) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 18261]
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=14676, tv_nsec=50374837}) = 0
[pid 18261] stat64("", 0xbf9d8b00)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory) [pid 18261] recvmsg(3, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN
(Resource temporarily unavailable)


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Example of rude top posting:

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply?

Saluton,
Quiliro
0987631031

bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Quiliro wrote:
>> That says that the spell checker could not be started. And that the
>> dictionary none could not be started.
>> 
>> "claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support"
>> "you can't add it afterwards"
>> That is what Claws-Mail's main developer said.
>> 
>> I guess guix does not build claws-mail with libenchant support by
>> default.
>
> Claws-mail is built with support for libenchant:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/mail.scm#n928
>
> So, there must be another problem.

It may be the problem I identified there:

  https://bugs.gnu.org/25836

Namely, libaspell (used by libenchant) doesn’t honor $ASPELL_CONF, and
thus thinks it has zero dictionaries available.

I’ve been meaning to email upstream and ask for advice, let’s see.

Ludo’.

bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[Leo Famulari]

Any update on this bug? 3 years have passed...

bug#26199: claws-mail needs to be built with libenchant support

[zimoun]

Hi Leo,

On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 16:31, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> Any update on this bug? 3 years have passed...

Then 1 year, 41 weeks more.  So closing!

Cheers,
simon