OT Big Dummy mutt question

From	Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	OT Big Dummy mutt question
Date	2017-04-24 02:20 +0200
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Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell 
working. Currently I have in .muttrc:

set ispell="ispell --mode=email"

This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high 
spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. 
Alas and alack. these arrived at their intended destinations 
with their test misspellings intact.

Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not 
follow on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for 
here) via the bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc 
such as is on display several lines above?

Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the 
only editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse 
to accept this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the 
strongest available terms through proper channels.

Please help.

Thank you.

-- 
"Natasha! First we shoot jet, then we go after moose and squirrel."

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OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 02:20 +0200
  Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-04-24 02:50 +0200
    Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 03:10 +0200
  Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-24 03:40 +0200
    Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 04:10 +0200
      Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-24 04:40 +0200

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