Colors in mutt while editing in vim

[Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@usa.net>]

Hi All,

I saw a lot of those answers to mutt color issues, so I thought I might
get lucky and someone knows the answer to my problem:

I am moving from Mandrake to Debian (mostly because I do NOT want to
do a clean install with every new version of my Linux distro). On mandrake I used mutt with
colors for Subject, From, etc (set in my .muttrc). I am using the same
muttrc (symlinked from my mandrake home directory to the new debian home
dir), these colors are displayed just fine in the pager, but when I edit
a mail or create a new with vim, colors are gonei (it worked out of the
box on mandrake, I have the same .vimrc .muttrc, everything symlinked). 

What happened to vim? Why vim cannot use the color settings now? (BTW, I was
always suprised that vim actually used the same colors what are set in
my muttrc)?

TIA Viktor