On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Myles Braithwaite via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I am also a trrible typist and on top of it a horrible speller. There
was a great plugin for Thunderbird[0] but i hasn't been updated since
31. So now I just have the *Check spelling before sending* option
checked. It should be in Options -> Composition -> Spelling.

Yes, that's what I have -- it's not nearly as good as the old autocorrect plugin.