FWIW, the lists of available dictionaries in the pull down of the spell checker is created from the available .v5dict files.  In my tests, removing a .v5dict file from the \DICTS subdirectory removes that dictionary from the pull down list.  Taking that a step further, I modified the content in a .v5dict file so that the entry for the dic and the aff file was invalid.  This also caused that dictionary to not appear in the pull down list. 

Based on these test results I think it would be worthwhile to compare the content of the .v5dict file of the Spanish dictionary with the content of the other .v5dict files to see if you can identify anything that is making them invalid.

The dictionary pull down list appears to be created during Pegasus Mail start up because changes made to the .v5dict files while Pegasus Mail was running were not seen until after it was restarted.  It is probably a good idea to work on the .v5dict files with Pegasus Mail closed anyway.

A nice addition to 4.7 is the multilingual spell checking.

Having to write in several languages, and now I got 4.7 working I did make a test.

When I call the spell checking, the dictionary available is the Spanish one and when I want to change with the pull down to switch to another one, I have  no choice. Looking in the 4.7 DICTS directory I see however quite some dictionaries there. Maybe I missed a point somewhere, but nor in the help nor through a forum search I found how to do it.

Any ideas?

Read the document from Downloads http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/40709/download.aspx

which explains how to add additional language dictionaries.

Maybe I didn't explain very well

I have following files in the DICTS directory

# ls -l
total 8564
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   97320 feb 26  2006 cs_CZ.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3764008 mrt  3  2006 cs_CZ.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      98 jun 27  2013 cs_cz.v5dict
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   18638 jun 22  2011 de_DE_igerman98.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1042541 jun 22  2011 de_DE_igerman98.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     115 jun 24  2013 de_DE_igerman98.v5dict
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   27449 mei 26  2005 en_gb.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  527337 mei 26  2005 en_gb.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     100 jun 19  2013 en_gb.v5dict
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    3045 mei  4  2007 en_US.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  696131 mei  4  2007 en_US.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      95 jun 24  2013 en_us.v5dict
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  157439 dec  2  2008 es_ES.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  830974 dec  2  2008 es_ES.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      94 jan 30  2014 es_es.v5dict
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  399013 jan 19  2011 fr-classique+reforme1990.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1127681 jan 19  2011 fr-classique+reforme1990.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     135 jun 27  2013 fr-classique+reforme1990.v5dict
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So it looks to me that I have quite some dictionaries there already.

Only the es_ES seems to be active as default and I don't see how I can switch to another one.

The pull down only gives the Spanish one as the only choice.

Hence the question how to select another dictionary.

I don't know if you have seen the document linked below, but it tells how to install/update dictionaries. You should be able to then see the dictionaries of choice in the Secondary dictionary list of the Spell checker dialog

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/40709/download.aspx 

Martin 

I downloaded and installed the program and wanted to point to the already existing dictionaries as shown, but the file dialogue didn't permit to browse to hidden directories.

Maybe it is because of wine. In wine the installation is in a directory tree beginning with hidden directory .wine.

So I have to investigate this further.

If you come up with a solution for Wine, please let us (me) know so the documentation can be updated.

Thank you

martin 

What I did is copy the dictionaries in Pmails DICTS directory to a place without a hidden directory in the path.

When I use insPMDC.exe and I can browse to the copied dictionary files.

I did this 3 times, once for the US, once for the UK and once for the Fench.

When I push make it so, get the question if I want to overwrite and I say yes.

I see that the dictionaries are installed then.

But when I try to spell check a sentence in French I can't select the French dictinary,  the Spanish one is still there and whether I push second directory change or swap dicts, I never get another one.

So I'll read the referenced doc once more to see if I maye a mistake, but that can take a while as in a couple of hours I am at travel and don't know whether I'll have an internet connection soon or not.

Or I just don't understand how to switch directories.

I think it would help if you could tell us about your configuration. Click on menu Help/About and click Info button. Then select and copy content that is displayed and paste it into Community in this thread.

Martin