Solaris sucks. I've never been able to get color mutt running on it. I haven't tried in a few years now, but if I remember correctly you needed to recompile ncurses with some extra options and then recompile mutt to use the new ncurses libraries. (or something like that) I found it easier to use fetchmail to download to my Linux server. On Thu, 02 May 2002, Lorry wrote: > I have two different IMAP servers that my mail is on. One is my school mail, > and one is my personal mail. I like to keep them separate. I use mutt for > both, but my personal mail I check using mutt on my laptop and for my school > mail, I use mutt either at school or by ssh to school. > > My personal mail mutt is working fine and is as colorful as I could want. My > school mail mutt is not colorful, whether I am at school or ssh'ing. I am not > that concerned about it, but the recent thread has me wondering more about it. > If there is no solution, no biggie, but I'm curious. > > Here are the details: > > **My personal mail mutt (working): > alcyone at aldebaran [~] > mutt -v > Mutt 1.3.27i (2002-01-22) > [snip] > System: Linux 2.4.9-31 (i686) [using ncurses 5.2] > > alcyone at aldebaran [~] > cat .muttrc > [snip] > # Color Definitions ####################################################### > color normal default default > color hdrdefault cyan default > [etc.] > > **My school mail mutt (not working): > strother at ash [~] > mutt -v > Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13) > [snip] > System: SunOS 5.8 (sun4u) > > - If I use the color definitions from my home .muttrc, I get errors because > "default" is not a recognized color. > - If I change the colors to all recognized colors (no defaults), all the > colors show up as my xterm default fg/bg anyway. > - When I ssh to school, I can see colors in other progs (ls --color, man, > vim, etc.) > - When I am actually at school, I never see any colors other than my default > fg/bg in an xterm. "Colors" in man, vim, etc. show up as bolding and > underlining. Colors in non-console apps (Netscape, acroread, etc.) are normal. > - using ssh: > strother at ash [~] > set term=xterm-color > tcsh: using dumb terminal settings. > strother at ash [~] > set term=rxvt > tcsh: using dumb terminal settings. > strother at ash [~] > mutt > Sorry, I don't know anything about your "rxvt" terminal. > > setting term to xterm, xtermc, and vt100 work, but still there are no colors > in mutt. In all above cases (even in "using dumb..") ls --color, etc. show > colors. > > Thanks, > Lorry > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list