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

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