[Alpine-info] alternate speller does not work

[Luise Kunkle]

While I have submitted the problem as a bug to launchpad, I doubt whether 
the priority is going to be very high - so perhaps someone on this list 
has a suggestion meanwhile:-) (I hope this is not against any rules?)

Here is the acknowledgement of the bug report with some details then known 
to me.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:03:26 -0000
From: Luise Kunkle <sem-pa at bar-do.net>
Reply-To: Bug 474278 <474278 at bugs.launchpad.net>
To: sem-pa at bar-do.net
Subject: [Bug 474278] [NEW] In ubuntu jaunty, Alpine 2.00,
     binary package installed from ubuntu: when sending message:
     "alternate speller terminated abnormally (-1), then question whether 
to send




Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: alpine

2.00+dfsg-2ubuntu

** Affects: alpine (Ubuntu)
      Importance: Undecided
          Status: New

-- In ubuntu jaunty, Alpine 2.00, binary package installed from ubuntu: 
when sending message: "alternate speller terminated abnormally (-1), then 
question whether to send https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474278 You 
received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the 
bug.

******

Here are some more details.

The default configuration, which does not work, is: /usr/bin/aspell 
--dont-backup --mode email-check

I tried changing it to: aspell -c, /usr/bin/aspell -c
--dont-backup --mode email-check. It still does not work - still the same 
return from alpine as before.

"aspell -c <file>" on  the cl works.

The dictionaries aspell-en and aspell-de are installed. However, I only 
installed the German dict. recently, after experimenting with only the 
English version. No change either way.

aspell is indeed installed in /usr/bin.

Any ideas as to what else I could try? Where I could look to find out more 
There does not seem to be any log for alpine (pine), nor is there anythin 
in /var/mail or /var/log on alpine.

Regards

Luise