V Suresh rearranged electrons thusly:

> How do I tell Mutt to use colors in the terminal?

Put this in your .muttrc -

color normal     default        default # normal text
color indicator  yellow         default # actual message
color tree       brightmagenta  default # thread arrows
color status     red            default # status line
color error      brightred      default # errors
color message    magenta            default # info messages 
color signature  magenta            default # signature
color attachment brightyellow   red     # MIME attachments
color search     brightyellow   red     # search matches
color tilde      brightmagenta  default # ~ at bottom of msg
color markers    red            default # + at beginning of wrapped lines
color hdrdefault cyan           default # default header lines
color bold       red            default # hiliting bold patterns in body
color underline  green          default # hiliting underlined patterns in body
color quoted     cyan           default # quoted text
color quoted1    magenta        default
color quoted2    red            default
color quoted3    green          default
color quoted4    magenta           default
color quoted5    cyan           default   
color quoted6    magenta        default
color quoted7    red            default
color quoted8    green          default
color quoted9    cyan           default
color body       cyan       default  "((ftp|http|https)://|news:)[^ >)\"\t]+"
color body       cyan       default  "[-a-z_0-9.+]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
color body       red        default  "(^| )\\*[-a-z0-9äöüß*]+\\*[,.?]?[ \n]"
color body       green      default  "(^| )_[-a-z0-9äöüß_]+_[,.?]?[ \n]"
color body       red        default  "(^| )\\*[-a-z0-9*]+\\*[,.?]?[ \n]"
color body       green      default  "(^| )_[-a-z0-9_]+_[,.?]?[ \n]"
color index      cyan       default  ~F         # Flagged
color index      red        default  ~N         # New
color index      magenta    default  ~T         # Tagged
color index      yellow     default  ~D         # Deleted

Play around with the colors.

> Is it possible to use Mutt to send messages later when I connect to ISP,

Yes.  See http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html on how to configure sendmail for
this.  Mutt hands off to the local sendmail.

> one go in Netscape Messenger. I do like to have a command line mail
> client, but Will Mutt offer me all these things that I get from
> Netscape?

yes.

        -s

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
"What separates normal people from kooks is how they react when people disagree
with them or tell them "NO"  <-- Ron Ritzman on news.admin.net-abuse.email


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