Hi Nathan > Was the Mutt on the FreeBSD machine linked with slang, while the Mutt on > the other machines using ncurses? (You can tell by looking at the first > few lines of the output from "mutt -v".) mutt on my FreeBSD machine is definitely compiled with ncurses; ncurses 5.6.20080503 to be precise. mutt on the other UNIX machines also use ncurses.
> What is the setting of $TERM just before you start Mutt? The $TERM environment variable on my Mac is set to xterm-color; at present, I do not have X11 installed on my FreeBSD machine so it's just the default: cons25. (Not sure if that would make a difference?) Jamie.