I've installed courier w. sqwebmail on a 2nd server here (it's already running successfully on another of my servers). The Linux distribution on the new server is gentoo and courier was installed using the gentoo ebuild for the full courier package. In most respects, it's working quite well.

When composing email in sqwebmail, unlike my older server, there is no "Check Spelling" button at the bottom of the message composition screen. ISPELLDICT is set to "english", although there is no /etc/dictionaries-common directory on the gentoo system (the original system runs debian linux). "spell" is set in my gentoo USE flags, and both ispell and aspell are installed on the system. I've tryed setting ISPELLDICT to "default" as works on my debian box, and restarting the webmail daemon, but this has no effect.

What are the factors in the build or post-build configuration which affect whether or not spell checking is offered in the message composition window?

My courier-config is:

# courier-config prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr bindir=/usr/bin sbindir=/usr/sbin libexecdir=/usr/lib64/courier sysconfdir=/etc/courier datadir=/usr/share/courier localstatedir=/var/lib/courier mailuser=mail mailgroup=mail mailuid=8 mailgid=12 configure_args="'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--prefix=/usr' '--disable-root-check' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--sysconfdir=/etc/courier' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib64/courier' '--datadir=/usr/share/courier' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib/courier/com' '--localstatedir=/var/lib/courier' '--with-piddir=/var/run/courier' '--with-authdaemonvar=/var/lib/courier/authdaemon' '--with-mailuser=mail' '--with-mailgroup=mail' '--with-paranoid-smtpext' '--with-db=gdbm' '--disable-autorenamesent' '--cache-file=/var/gentoo/tmp/portage/courier-0.48.1-r1/work/courier-0.48.1/configuring.cache' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--with-ispell' '--with-ipv6' '--with-ldapaliasd' '--enable-maildropldap' '--enable-nls' '--enable-unicode' '--with-ldapconfig=/etc/courier/maildropldap.conf' '--enable-mimetypes=/etc/mime.types' 'debug=true' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-march=nocona -O2 -pipe' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=nocona -O2 -pipe' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' --enable-utf7-folder-encoding"