default color in terminal

[shawn a.]

Hello everybody,
  I usually run mutt in an Eterm with a pixmap background, so I use the
  "default" color instead of black. My problem is that when run mutt in 
  a non-X termininal the foreground and the background are black wherever
  I used the "default" color, so I cant read anything exept the status
  bars.  
  My question is, Has anybody else noticed this or is it just my setup
  is bad?

thanks for any pointers,
shawn a.

p.s. this is Mutt 1.0us running in ppc linux.