>>> What part of the email message are you referring to? Basically, >>> mail.vim does spell checking only in the letter portion, not the >>> headers (or Subject: ...), etc.
>> I'm talking about the body, i.e. I'm just starting to write stuff at the >> top without any headers. >> >> Leslie >> > Ah, there's your problem. In an email, everything until the first > empty line is "headers". > > Add the following 4 lines at the top of your email: > > From: > To: > Subject: > > (i.e., 3 nonempty lines and one empty line). You may add more headers, > and/or fill them in. Then your "body" text will be after the first > empty line, and it will not be regaded as "headers". That's weird. I use Gvim to edit web mail via the Mozex extension. I can place "this is a tset" at line one in my message after executing the `set filetype=mail` command, and it will be spell-checked. I don't have to include any headers or empty lines or anything else like that.
