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# (default, white, black, green, magenta, blue, cyan, yellow, red)
# (bright...)
# (color1,color2,...,colorN-1)
#
# object foreground background
#

color index cyan default ~N # New
color index yellow default ~O # Old
color index white default ~R # Read
color index green default '~f "Roland*"' #from Roland Hill
color index green default '~f "root@iceberg.local"' #from root
#color index green default '~p' # mail to myself
#color index green default '~P' # mail from myself
color index magenta default ~F # Flagged
color index blue default ~T # Tagged
color index red default ~D # Deleted
#color index magenta default "~g" # gpg signed
color index magenta default "~G" # gpg encrypted

color body cyan default "ftp://[^ ]*"
color body brightgreen default "[[:alnum:]][-+.#_[:alnum:]]*@[-+.[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]"
color body cyan default ""
color body yellow default "[;:]-[)/(|]" # colorise smileys
color body yellow default "[;:][)/(|]"
#color body brightblue default "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger)://[^ ]*"
color body brightblue default "\\b[^ ]+://[^ ]*"
color body brightred default "^subject: .*"
color body green default "^(from|date|sent): .*"
color body green default "(To): .*"
color body cyan default "^(reply-to|organisation|organization|user-agent): .*"

color header green default "^from"
color header green default "^from:"
color header green default "^to:"
color header green default "^cc:"
color header green default "^date:"
color header green default "^newsgroups:"
color header green default "^reply-to:"
color header brightred default "^subject:"
color header cyan default "^x-spam-rule:"
color header cyan default "^x-mailer:"
color header cyan default "^message-id:"
color header cyan default "^Organization:"
color header cyan default "^Organisation:"
color header cyan default "^User-Agent:"
color header cyan default "^message-id: .*pine"
color header cyan default "^X-Fnord:"
color header cyan default "^X-WebTV-Stationery:"
color header cyan default "^X-Message-Flag:"
color header cyan default "^X-Spam-Status:"
color header cyan default "^X-Spam-Report:"
color header cyan default "^X-SpamProbe:"
color header cyan default "^X-SpamProbe: SPAM"

color quoted cyan default # Coloring quoted text -
color quoted1 yellow default # coloring the first 7 levels:
color quoted2 cyan default
color quoted3 yellow default
color quoted4 cyan default
color quoted5 yellow default
color quoted6 cyan default
color quoted7 yellow default

color normal white default # pager body
color signature brightred default
color status brightwhite blue
#color status brightgreen blue
color tilde blue default
color tree brightgreen default
color underline yellow default
color indicator black yellow
#color indicator brightblue cyan
color markers red default
color message brightgreen blue
color attachment brightyellow default
color bold green default
color error brightred black
Last update: April 1, 2021