[ILUG] Mutt and colo[u]?r

[John Gaughan]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Dave Neary wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've finally gotten round to setting up an MTA here in work, and
> have mutt running nicely now. My problem is that it's in stinky
> monochrome cream & black, and I'd like the shiny all-colour
> singing & dancing version, please.
> 
> My current TERM's xterm, but I've also tried xterm-color and it
> makes no defference.

Have you configured mutt to use colours?  Unless there are 'color'
commands[1] in your .muttrc (or /etc/Muttrc it it exists) defining what
colours to use, mutt will display in plain old black and white.

> Also there's a couple of key-bindings that I've become used to -
> anyone have a template .muttrc that changes some bindings, sets
> stuff nicely, even has a "behave differently if I'm mailing to
> address a, b or c" example maybe?

There are links[2] to users .muttrcs on mutt.org which should get you
started. 

  1. http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#ss3.7
  2. http://www.mutt.org/links.html#config
-- 
John Gaughan, Systems Administrator
Irish Times New Media - http://www.ireland.com/