309602 - Should not spell check personal names

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216235

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

When I reply to a message the rpely often begins like this:

Dan Streetman wrote:
> You need to implement the entire USB mass storage protocol in Java if you...

If the name of the person I'm replying to is not in the dictionary. the spell
checker flags it. Here it's "Streetman." Since this is automatically filled in
from the person's own message it's very unlikely that this is misspelled. It's
much more likely that this person's name is simply not in my dictionary. 

The spell checker should ignore the personal name, Thunderbird itself fills in
when replying. Possibly you can just ignore the words that go before "wrote" in
the first line. Possibly you can tempoorarily ignore any word found in the name
in the To header of the composed message or some such. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reply to a message from a person with a slightly unusual name
2. Spell check it
3.

Actual Results:  
Name is incorrectly flagged as misspelled

Expected Results:  
name is not flagged

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216235 ***