Got it!  You had referenced index.dat whereas it should have been
index.txt

thanks


On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 17:08 -0500, Surgemail Support wrote:
> It should automatically download these files as needed:
>HIDDEN@etwin [~]# ls /usr/local/surgemail/spellcheck/
> ./   en_GB.aff  en_US.aff  index.txt      mi.aff  nl_NL.aff
> ../  en_GB.dic  en_US.dic  mi.dic  nl_NL.dic
>HIDDEN@etwin [~]#
> 
> 
> If your server has no connectivity to http://netwinsite.com for
> download or it is not downloading them for some odd reason (maybe
> manual file deletion??) you can manually grab them all from:
>       http://netwinsite.com/surgeweb/spellcheck/ ...
> 
> 
> eg
>       http://netwinsite.com/surgeweb/spellcheck/index.txt
> 
> 
> Marijn
>  
>  
> 
> On Tuesday 11/09/2012 at 3:15 am, wayne Gregori wrote: 
> > Thanks for the note Marijn,
> > 
> > But I can't find index.dat on my (linux) system... I searched both
> > my
> > master and slave but there is no such file. I had a system crash
> > some
> > weeks ago and a bunch of files got clobbered... could I be running
> > without the index.dat file. (my spell checker is not working
> > either).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Wayne
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 05:46 -0500, Surgemail Support wrote:
> > > I'll write some documentation and add it to the docs, but it is
> > > pretty
> > > easy.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Spellcheck files reside in surgemail/spellcheck. Add suitable
> > > files
> > > there instructions as per index.dat.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > To set the spellcheck default language, add a suitable
> > > pref_spellcheck_language setting to config_*.dat file with
> > > language
> > > code based on as defined in index.dat.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > To set the default spellcheck language to US english add this
> > > setting 
> > > to say surgeweb/custom/config_global.dat:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >         pref_spellcheck_language en_US
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Note: Any user who has saved their own surgeweb settings will
> > > override 
> > > this of course.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Marijn 
> > >    
> > > 
> > > On Sunday 09/09/2012 at 2:24 am, wayne Gregori wrote: 
> > > > Can someone direct me to a document that says how to add a
> > > > french
> > > > dictionary to surgemail.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Wayne
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>