> Most of the dictionaries are symlinks from other basefiles. I have used > these lines in my postinstall to remove dictionaries > > echo "Remove excessive spell checking lists" > cd /usr/share/myspell > find . -type l -exec rm {} \; > \rm -f de_AT.* de_CH.* en_CA.* ko_KR.* > > That will give you a much smaller list of dictionaries in thunderbird. Thanks a lot, exactly what I needed. It worked fine.