This is curious enough to investigate...

* Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Wari Wahab proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> 
> ># SCREAMING TEXT (often used in spam)
> >color body brightyellow  default    " \([-A-Z']{2,}[ ,]*\)+"
> 
> Maybe your terminal doesn't understand a color called brightyellow?  Try
> giving a hex equivalent - #ffffaa will do very fine I think.
> 

To the contrary, it has nothing to do with the colors (I changed
'brightyellow' to 'green' to test this). Not all messages freeze mutt,
though I found a segment that does:

Breaks at the hyphens
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

While this doesn't freeze it at all:

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Removing the hyphen from [-A-Z'] stops it from freezing, but I don't know why.

# SCREAMING TEXT (often used in spam)
color body brightyellow  default    " \([A-Z']{2,}[ ,]*\)+"


  DAVID

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