As Sven just pointed out I have been using rather old versions of mutt I have upgraded all my mutts (four of them) to version 1.4i. All of the Linux ones were no problem, just ./configure with the required options, make and install and it worked like clockwork.
However the Solaris 2.6 one is proving a bit more difficult. First it didn't add '-liconv' to the Makefile line for linking, I fixed that by adding it manually to the Makefile. Secondly, and more significant, is that colours are not working correctly any more. When mutt loads it complains:- Error in /home/chris/.mutt/muttrc, line 27: default: no such color Error in /home/chris/.mutt/muttrc, line 28: default: no such color ... ... etc. I'm using ncurses 5.0 on both the Solaris version and the Linux versions and the 'default' colour works fine on the Linux versions. I have a sneaking feeling that I remember having this problem before but unfortunately I can't remember how to fix it. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])