-# color terminals:
-# (default, white, black, green, magenta, blue, cyan, yellow, red)
-# (bright...)
-# (color1,color2,...,colorN-1)
-#
-# object foreground background
-#
-color normal default default # normal text
-color indicator brightwhite color8 # actual message
-color tree default default # thread arrows
-color status white black # status line
-color error brightred default # errors
-color message default default # info messages
-color signature blue default # signature
-color attachment yellow default # MIME attachments
-color search yellow default # search matches
-color tilde brightmagenta default # ~ at bottom of msg
-color markers white default # + at beginning of wrapped lines
-color hdrdefault blue default # default header lines
-color bold brightred default # hiliting bold patterns in body
-color underline brightmagenta default # hiliting underlined patterns in body
-color quoted red default # quoted text
-color quoted1 magenta default
-color quoted2 green default
-color quoted3 red default
-color quoted4 magenta default
-color quoted5 green default
-color quoted6 red default
-color quoted7 magenta default
-color quoted8 green default
-color quoted9 red default
-#
-# object foreground backg. RegExp
+color status color7 color16
+color indicator default color237
+
+color normal color15 color233
+
+color index brightcolor15 default "!(~D|~N|~O) ~T"
+color index color249 default "~Q"
+
+color index color226 default "(~N|~O)"
+color index brightcolor226 default "(~N|~O) ~T"
+color sidebar_new color226 default
+
+color index color243 default "~D"
+color index brightcolor243 default "~D ~T"
+
+color index default color19 "~h X-Was-Postponed:"
+
+color index default color88 "~F"
+color sidebar_flagged color88 default
+
+color hdrdefault color111 default
+color header color156 default "^From:"
+color header color156 default "^Subject:"
+
+color attachment color204 default
+color search default color172
+
+color body color180 default [\-\.+_a-zA-Z0-9]+@[\-\.a-zA-Z0-9]+
+color body color117 default (https?|ftp)://[\-\.,/%~_:?&=\#a-zA-Z0-9]+
+color body color230 default (^|[[:space:]])\\*[^[:space:]]+\\*([[:space:]]|$) # *bold* text Blue
+color body color230 default (^|[[:space:]])_[^[:space:]]+_([[:space:]]|$) # _underlined_ text Blue
+color body color230 default (^|[[:space:]])/[^[:space:]]+/([[:space:]]|$) # /italic/ text Blue
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+color signature color8 default # Signatures are Surface 2
+
+color error color1 default # error messages are Red
+color tree color15 default # thread tree arrows Subtext 0
+color tilde color15 default # blank line padding Subtext 0
+
+color quoted color15 default # Subtext 0
+color quoted1 color7 default # Subtext 1
+color quoted2 color8 default # Surface 2
+color quoted3 color0 default # Surface 1
+color quoted4 color0 default
+color quoted5 color0 default
+
+# get a list of colours with zsh: