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
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