Using Mulberry - Mac

Installing Mulberry
Starting Mulberry
About the INBOX and IMAP Server Windows
Reading your E-mail
Sending E-mail

Installing Mulberry

Double click the MUSC Mulberry Installer icon to get started

Follow the normal Macintosh installation process

You will see a:

Mulberry "splash" screen with information about the company - Click Continue
License notification. Read this - Click Accept
Change History - Click Continue
Main Installation Screen - Click Install
Installation progress bar - do nothing
Request to install a U.S. Dictionary - Click Yes
Request to install a U.K. Dictionary - Click No
End of installation Notification - Click Quit

Mulberry is now installed and you are ready to open it and begin handling your e-mail

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Starting Mulberry

Contents of Mulberryf folder installed by above process

Open the Mulberryffolder and double click on Mulberry:
You will see the Mulberry "splash" screen
followed by the Login screen (pictured below)

Mulberry's Login Screen. Seen every time you start Mulberry

At User ID: enter your MUSC Network Account name
At Password: enter your MUSC Network Account password
Click OK

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About INBOX and the IMAP Server Windows

View of INBOX window with examples of mail. Yours won't look exactly like this.

Your INBOX window may be entirely blank if you haven't received mail there yet. In the example above, the different styles and colors of e-mail represent actions you have taken on your mail. For Example:

Blue represents e-mail you have not yet Read
Red represents e-mail you have read and marked as Important
Green represents e-mail you have read and replied to
Black type represents e-mail you have read and taken no further action on
Underlined black type represents e-mail that has more than one recipient
Red Strikethrough represents e-mail you have deleted but is not expunged

Note the other information available in the INBOX window: In the top right corner is the total number of messages, number of unseen and number of deleted There is a delete and expunge button There's a bar line with:

Pound sign (#)     Bullet (•)     Diamond     From/To     Date Sent:     Thread

All items on this bar line are configurable. To change an item, hold down the Command key and click on that item. A popup list allows you to change any item. To see what each item is, hold down the Command key and click on it. For Example:

INBOX Message Window. Status Bar Items are Configurable

IMAP Server Information

IMAP Server Information Window. Yours will not look exactly like this

There is a lot of information about the status of your e-mail in the IMAP Server Information Window. Logout Button - If you are connected to the IMAP Server, you will see Logout. If you are disconnected, you will see Login.

The Details button gives you information on the kind of server, you license number, etc.

The status line shows

State of e-mail - The green box shows that you are connected
Favorites - The check mark in the second column marks your INBOX as one to check for new mail at the time interval you set in preferences
Name - Shows the name of the Folder (or directory) that you have created to store your mail. Some are created for you at installation time.
Total e-mail messages - How many messages are in your INBOX
Total number of New Messages - How many of those messages are New
Total number of Unseen Messages - How many of those messages are Unseen

The difference between read and unseen is a subtle one. A new message is one that has arrived since the last time you opened your INBOX. An unseen message is one that was there when you last opened your INBOX, but you did not yet read.

All of these are configurable by Command-clicking (as explained above)

IMAP Server Window with column Command-clicked for Popup

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Reading Your E-mail

View of INBOX with mail. Yours will not look exactly like this

To read a message, double click on it.

Reading an e-mail message in Mulberry

Most of the information you see is common to all e-mail programs:

Up and down triangles navigate from one message to the next
Trash can icon deletes message
file drawer icon copies the message (see below)
Reply
Forward

Some buttons you might not be familiar with are on the line just above the message text:

Parts - This is where you'll find any attachments. If parts = 1, there are no attachments
Header icon - right after Parts. This shows all of the e-mail header information. Something you usually don't want to do.
Formatted - You can receive mail in three different ways:
1. formatted - allows styled text such as bold, underlined, italic, colors, and different point sizes
2. plain text - allows no styled text and ignores any markup (such as html)
3. raw text - allows no styled text, but keeps any html markup. (useful for saving e-mail messages as html to read with a browser).
Copy to: - This is a popup button that will let you select any of your mail folders to copy the text of this message to.
Icon file - clicking this file drawer icon actually copies the message into the mail folder you selected above

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Sending E-mail

Creating a new e-mail message in Mulberry

From any screen in Mulberry, you can choose to create a new e-mail message by going under the File Menu and selecting New Message. If you have a name highlighted in your address book or in the LDAP Server, that name will be placed in the TO: field. If you have more than one name highlighted, they will all be placed in the TO: field.

New message window in Mulberry.

Here, again, you will be familiar with many of the elements on the new message screen. TO, CC, BCC, Subject, Attach, Send

Last two lines before text in Mulberry's new mail window

Copy to: - a popup list of all of your mail folders. You can choose to send a copy of the message to one of these folders
File Folder Icon - copy the message to the chosen folder now
Also copy original message - Copies the replied-to message to the Copy to: folder
Parts - This is where you'll see any attachments you have added. If parts = 1, there are no attachments
Text popup - This is a little different from the read mail popup. There are three choices:
1. Plain - simple, unadorned text
2. Enriched - Bold, underlined, italic, color, font sizes
3. HTML - allows you to compose e-mail messages in HyperText Markup Language to be read by a WWW browser
Identity: Lets you choose an identity that you have set up in your preferences
Signature Icon - Inserts your signature at the current line of text

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