English Grammar Check For Thunderbird Email Client

The desktop email client Thunderbird comes with integrated spell checking. The spell checking module uses dictionaries to provide the functionality. Grammar checking on the other hand is not offered by default. That’s where the Grammar Checker add-on for the Thunderbird email client comes into play. The add-on supports the latest release version of Thunderbird (that’s version 2.x) and the beta versions of Thunderbird 3 up to 3.1x). The grammar check uses the Open Source language checker Language Tool.

The installation is slightly more complicated than the usual add-on installation. The reason for this is Language Tool needs to run as a local server. There is an option to use a remote server but this would mean that the email contents would be transferred back and forth to that server which obviously raises privacy concerns.

The developer of the grammar checking add-on for Thunderbird has published explanations on how to setup the local server and configure the add-on in Thunderbird to use that server. In short: All it takes is to run the server from the web start option provided at the Language Tool website. This will download the files to the local computer system and provide an option to start the tool as a server (File->Option and select “Run as server”:) The server settings need to be changed in the extension’s preferences.

Grammar Checker is an experimental add-on that can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.

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2 Responses to “English Grammar Check For Thunderbird Email Client”

1. Tomer Guez says:

   October 10, 2009 at 8:16 pm

   And for this there is Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com). It adds spell check to all programs, and comes with an optional grammar check.

   Reply
2. grammar software says:

   November 18, 2009 at 11:42 am

   Hey, English Grammar Check For Thunderbird Email Client its Helping People Learn to Read and used and

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   Regards

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