Hi Kyle, thanks for your help. > The TERM is definitely the issue. That setting controls how mutt (or, > more accurately, ncurses) knows what codes to use to change the colors > and otherwise draw things on your terminal (such as the status bar). > > You don't need to install X11 on your FreeBSD machine; all you really > need are the xterm-color termcap files installed into the right > places. (Installing X11 and xterm may be the simplest/easiest way to > do that; installing new termcap files by themselves can be done, but > it isn't something even many sysadmins know much about and can be a > little confusing.) There are quite a few entries in /etc/termcap already for xterm-*, including xterm-color. I tried setting TERM=xterm-color in ~.cshrc (obviously using the correct environment setting syntax for csh) but it made things worse by mangling up the display on the console of my FreeBSD machine, and didn't improve the display on the Mac either. Perhaps i did that wrong?
Anyway, I do plan on installing X again soon from ports but it's broken at the moment so will just wait until the pr is closed and will try it then. Jamie.
