Perhaps this is related to the original query, which I have lost.
I run mutt in an rxvt window, and recently installed
rxvt-2.4.7-2.i386.rpm from the RedHat Linux 5.2 distribution.
Unlike my previous version of rxvt, which set TERM=xterm-color, this version,
by default, has TERM=xterm. I now must invoke mutt with
Exec rxvt -tn xterm-color -T Mutt -e mutt &
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