When I was first messing around with Mutt I had similar troubles when trying to use a regular old xterm. It seems like I found that setting the environment variable TERM to color_xterm instead of just xterm made it work. Calling xterm with the -tn color_xterm flag has a similar effect, I think.
HTH --Daniel On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:02:17PM +0000, John J Kearney wrote: > please can sombody tell me how to enable colors in mutt > > i have a color xterm and vim has colors in it > > what must i do for mutt ot work here also > > TIA JJK