Previous ebuilds of mutt reacted xterm resizing, current version doesn't. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start mutt in xterm 2. resize xterm 3. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-rc1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-rc1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz distcc 2.14 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache nostrip sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa avi berkdb bidi bindist bonobo caps cddb cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga dillo directfb dnd dvd emacs encode evo faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib irda jack java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg kde lcms libdsk libg++ libgda libwww linguas_en linguas_nl lirc ltsp mad mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mpeg msn music ncurses nls offensive ofx oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime quotes radeon readline ruby samba scanner sdl skey sox speedo speex spell sse ssl stencil-buffer t1lib tcltk tcpd theora tiff transparent-proxy truetype type1 usb v4l vim-with-x wmf x86 xchattext xemacs xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib zvbi"
works fine here, running xterm-194 xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 mutt-1.5.6-r2 ncurses-5.4-r3 are these the versions you have installed?
Hm, I don't know what has changed, but it works now (after some 'emerge world's, I think). [I--] [ ~] sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r2 (5) [I--] [ ~] mail-client/mutt-1.5.6-r2 (0) [I--] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 (0) xterm-193. Thanks!