[Solved] Recent Update to Base System release 2.6 and Weird mutt Behavior
Hey All,
I have a terminal-only account and my ISP has recently updated the hardware that I use for this and, coincidentally, updated the OS from a years old version of Gentoo to what I believe is a fairly recent update. The file /etc/gentoo-release contains the line: Gentoo Base System release 2.6.
Everything I do on this machine is via a terminal interface only. Access to it is via ssh, and I use GNU screen to create some virtual terminal windows. To my knowledge, there is not even a desktop environment installed on the platform.
As part of all of this the terminal-based email program, mutt, was updated to version Mutt 1.10.1 (2018-07-13, gentoo-1.10.1/r0). I'm a long-time user of this application, but I'm encountering a weird effect that I've never come across before: In email replies, the quoted text from the email that I'm replying to appears to contain terminal control escape sequences. Here's an example message from myself to my gmail account that I've gotten into a reply window,
-----------------begin included email message-------------
From: john r red-horse <jrredho@swcp.com>
To: john red-horse <jrredho@gmail.com>
Cc:
Bcc:
Subject: Re: OpenSSL 1.1.1 Is Released
Reply-To:
In-Reply-To: <A32BA8F9-99F4-4D8C-BB5D-E9BF8E31AA20@swcp.com>
This is a test.
john r red-horse wrote:
> ^[[38;5;0m^[[48;5;0m^[[38;5;15m ^[[38;5;21mhttp://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/09/11/release111/
-----------------end included email message-------------
Am I the only user that's come across this? I've been using an older version of the gentoo/mutt via ssh/screen in the same TERM=xterm-color combination for several years; this is a new one.
Many thanks,
john
Last edited by jrredho; 08-30-2019 at 09:43 AM.
Reason: Indicate issue is solved in title
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