Here's a brief excerpt from my current Mutt index screen. Sorry, the editor is wrapping the lines though they're not wrapped on the index screen itself: r 154 Telephony Voice User Interface Conference ( 49) Jim Tobias fmt 155 *> ( 104) Jim Tobias fmt 156 Mastering 88 Keys Con (Digital) Brio ( 193) Paula Tucker fmt Notice that this isn't the default index screen. I wanted status, message number, then subject, in that order. So, I have the following in my .muttrc: set index_format = "%Z %4C %s %?M?(#%03M)&(%4l)? %F %{fmt}" The blank subject part of #155 indicates that it's in the thread with 154. This is behavior you can change, though I don't recall how just now. Certainly, you can set mutt to not thread, which would probably do it right there. PS: My %[fmt] is clearly wrong. Guess I should fix it! <grin> Deedra Waters writes: > > The only thing that bugs me about not seeing more of the subject lines > is that a lot of messages look blank. For example the "logging in on > multiple consoles thread" It makes it a lot harder to just skim threw > messages that way. I liked the fact that pine showed me at least part of > the subject line so I could just ignore the stuff I didn't want to read.