Spell Check in Mail

Hi,

This premature email sending during spell check corrections has been occurring on my MacBook Pro (Lion 10.7.5) since the day I bought it last year. I never had this problem with my last Mac, and I'm extremely disappointed with Apple for not addressing and fixing this issue. I appreciate the community's input, but I still have not been able to fix the problem. Come on Apple, be responsible to your customers and fix it.

Denise

Denise, qase and anne - you are the ones who are explaining this the best, and it matches my problem. If I am spellchecking but then as I read the original email, if I decide I wish to, say, add another sentence that I've only then thought of, if I try and type anything new the email gets sent! As someone else said, very embarrassing when it is a professionla/work email. Am now sending a complaint into apple. Driving me mad.

I am having this same problem with OS 10.8.2, Mail 6.2. I never had this problem under Snow Leopard. It is an outrageous problem when the Spell Checker function actually facilitates mistakes. Apple please please address this, it is destroying my productivity and confidence in Mail.

Same issue here, and experienced it after an upgrade of OS (can't exactly recall which one).

Driving me NUTS and now need to discontinue spell check as each email goes out flawed.

Apple - pls fix YOUR product or start providing some refunds, looks like a lot of us not getting what we want.

BangkokPoppy,

I agree the problem is frustrating; have you tried my suggestions in the Oct 25 email above? The suggestions amount to changing one's beahvior with respect to correcting mistakes in email with the spellcheck turned on (under Mail Preferences >Composing > "Check Spelling When I Click Send"). Annoying (since it didn't work like this before), but not hard to do.

What I discovered is that if you have spell-checking turned on, and the spell-check box comes up for an email you are attempting to send, you won't get the abrupt sending if you limit your fixes to INSIDE the spell-check box OR make sure to click in the body of the email to un-highlight the intended correction, and then make any spelling or grammar adjustments that you wish to make. Once that spell-check box is open, and you attempt to do a fix within the body of the email with a word highlighted (rather than fixing it inside the spell-check box), the mail will abruptly send. The email does get sent once all the words it thinks are misspelled are corrected.

It seems that there should be an easy fix to this (it also bothers me that the spellcheck box sometimes won't go away after this abrupt sending takes place). But I don't know that this problem is serious enough to merit attention (also not sure if Apple developers/bug-fix teams monitor these threads for issues).

Hi there, tnaks for your recommendation. I have tested it and doesn't reliably make a difference - sometimes it doesn't do it othertimes it does. I am going to switch off spell checker and keep emails shorter. Appreciate the suggestion.

APPLE, please review.

So glad I found this post. I too upgraded my OSX and had this glitch present itself at the absolute worst moment when a document containing errors was sent prematurely to a potential client. And the worst of it is the removal of the bounce feature so I couldn't even try to stop the delivery. This sort of functional weakness in a basic procedure is not what I expect from Apple. I too hope this is addressed soon.

This issue is not restricted to Mac Mini!! I have a brand new MacBook Pro which I updated from my old Macbook Pro using time machine.

The issue is exactly as described by numerous other people in that whilst using spell check the moment you hit the space bar..bang off goes a half-checked email and another very disatisfied Apple user + bemused recipient who assumes you cannot spell!

The only inadequate way of fixing this bug is before hitting sapce bar 'auto send'...you stop yourself...save the mail as a draft and then reopen it. You can then edit the e-mail as normal without fear of an early send.

THIS IS AN inadequate soloution to a problem and Apple needs to get amongst this ASAP

I'm having the same exact issue. Beyond frustrating! I too have a brand new MacBook Pro purchased in December 2012 and I moved everything over from my old MacBook Pro using migration assistant. I hope that Apple fixes this. This problem didn't start for me until just a few months ago so I'm wondering if it is due to an update between now and then?

I found this thread because I'm having the same exact problem that Denise describes. Has anyone sorted out how to resolve this other than limit use of spell check (check during or not use)? This seems to be a half way temporary solution rather than a fix. It is actually a major issue on using this product for professional emails.

Thanks for any info.

Cmhall27,

This is not a solution but a suggested workaround, which I've detailed in entries to this thread, dated Oct 25, 2012, and Mar 8, 2013, both above.

I have found these choices good for my mental health: choosing to do spellchecking/editing without the use of the spellchecker (turned off in preferences, so it won't open up the suggested corrections pop-up box), or if you have your email preferences to check spelling before sending, limiting the corrections made to those identified by the spell checker, within the corrections box.

I discovered that if I attempt to do a word edit or spelling correction inside the body of the email (so, ignoring what's suggested in spell corrections pop-up box), the email gets sent prematurely, sans all the corrections I might need to make.

It is not an optimal solution to the problem, but one that I've learned to adapt to, until the Apple QC folks decide to escalate this issue to be properly fixed.

Thanks, Anne. I appreciate the response and will go with your suggestion for now to avoid mid changing text sends to colleagues.. Hopefully Apple will get on this soon!

Anne unfortuantely I think your way is the only way. Mail spell just doesn't work, therefore work around and back to basics.

I'm about to bin Mac Mail and head for Microsoft Outlook....that is the first step, love the mac product but might eventually end up migrating over to another PC, they are also getting smarter and can deal with spelling....!

Having same problem! How many email were sent by hitting space bar! Very very anoying!

Glenn Doesn't get the point and the problem still exists. Super Crap.. going back to Enterouge.