Also spracht David Thorburn-Gundlach...
> Anything you can do inside .muttrc you can do inside mutt by using the
> ':' command character. Thus, as you're reading a letter that you want
> to zoom, you could simply type
>
> :set pager_index_lines=1
>
> and continue reading in your almost-full-screen mode. You could, if you
> read up a bit on macros and/or bindings, probably find a way to make a
> key (oh, say, 'z' for 'zoom', maybe? ;-) zoom in and out when pressed.
I have the following in my .muttrc:
# I toggles pager index lines
macro pager \e\e0 ":set pager_index_lines=4\n:macro pager I \\e\\e1\n"
macro pager \e\e1 ":set pager_index_lines=0\n:macro pager I \\e\\e0\n"
macro pager I "\e\e1"
m.