I have a very peculiar problem which just showed itself when I changed one of my rxvt X resouces recently. My Rxvt resources file has the following:- Rxvt*color0: grey10 Rxvt*color1: red4 Rxvt*color2: green4 Rxvt*color3: yellow4 Rxvt*color4: blue3 Rxvt*color5: magenta4 Rxvt*color6: cyan3 Rxvt*color7: grey50 Rxvt*color8: black Rxvt*color9: Red Rxvt*color10: Green Rxvt*color11: yellow Rxvt*color12: blue Rxvt*color13: magenta Rxvt*color14: cyan Rxvt*color15: white My muttrc has:- color header blue default . color body magenta default [_a-z\.\$A-Z0-9-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\./\-]+ color body magenta default (http|ftp)://[_a-zA-Z0-9\./~\-]+ color quoted blue default color signature red default # color indicator yellow blue color attachment magenta default color tree red default color indicator black cyan color status cyan blue color tilde blue default color normal default default The above works as expected, default gives text in mutt which is the same as my defaults for rxvt which is non-bold black on grey90. However if I change rxvt's color7 (not explictly used by mutt at all) to grey90 (same as my default background colour) then mutt's default foreground colour changes to *bold* black, rxvt color8. Has anyone any idea why this should happen? This is with Mutt 1.1.13i (2000-05-03), SunOS 5.6 [using slang 10310] -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/