Using Mulberry 3 for E-Mail

Mulberry is an e-mail program for both Macintosh and Windows computers. It looks essentially the same on both platforms. It can be used in conjunction with the e-mail service provided by Information Technology Central Services (ITCS) as part of the Basic Computing Package.

Like Pine—another ITCS-supported e-mail program—Mulberry is an IMAP (Interactive Mail Access Protocol) client. IMAP allows software running on your computer to access a server computer where your mailbox is stored. Because your e-mail is on an IMAP server, you can access the same mailbox and folders from different locations.

NOTE: The current version of Mulberry is 3.1.5. The screen shots in this document were made using the previous version of Mulberry, so you may notice some slight differences between the screen shots and what you see on your computer.

Table of Contents

• Obtaining, Installing, and Configuring Mulberry

• Adding Your Name and Setting a Signature

• Getting to Your E-Mail

• Changing the Way Mulberry Looks

• Working With Your Messages

• Writing and Sending Messages

• Mulberry's Spell Checker

• About Receipts

• Reading Attachments

• Sending Attachments

• Searching for Messages

• Using Mulberry's Address Book

• Searching the U-M Online Directory from Mulberry

• Using Mailboxes/Mail Folders

• Shortcut Keys

• Additional Resources

• Appendix A: Configuring Mulberry to Work With CAEN and Other Campus E-Mail Servers

• Appendix B: Setting Mulberry to Use Fixed-Width Fonts (Windows Only)

• Appendix C: Using Disconnected Mode

Obtaining, Installing, and Configuring Mulberry

ATTENTION CAEN USERS! See Appendix A: Configuring Mulberry to Work With CAEN and Other Campus E-Mail Servers at the end of this document for instructions on making Mulberry work with CAEN servers.

Adding Your Name and Setting a Signature

1. Open Mulberry.
2. Log in with your uniqname and UMICH Kerberos password.

ATTENTION DIAL-IN USERS! If you are using a dial-in connection, Mulberry may ask, "Do you want to start this session in disconnected mode?" Click Connected. (You must be connected to the Internet to change your preferences, because your preferences are stored on a server machine rather than on your own computer.)

ATTENTION CAEN USERS! Be sure to leave the Kerberos realm set as UMICH.EDU. If you change the realm to ENGIN.UMICH.EDU, authentication will fail.

3. From the File menu, choose Preferences. (Mac OS X users, select Preferences from the Mulberry menu.) A Remote Preferences window will open.
4. On the right side of the Remote Preferences window will be a radio button for Simple. If it is not selected, click it.
5. In the Real Name field, enter your full name as you wish it to appear on your e-mail messages.
6. Near the bottom of the window, click the Set Signature button. The Set Signature dialog box will open.
7. In the Set Signature box, enter the text you wish to appear at the bottom of each e-mail message you send. Then click the OK button in the lower right hand corner of the window.
8. In the lower right corner of the Remote Preferences window, click the Save Default button.
9. In the lower right corner of the Remote Preferences window, click the OK button.

Getting to Your E-Mail

1. Open Mulberry.
2. Log in with your uniqname and UMICH Kerberos password.

ATTENTION DIAL-IN USERS! If you are using a dial-in connection, Mulberry may ask, "Do you want to start this session in disconnected mode?" Click Connected. (You must be connected to the Internet to get your new mail.)

3. Your INBOX will open. Click any message to view it.
4. 

HINT: You can sort your messages by message number, message flag, from/to, date sent, and thread (a message and replies to it). Click the column header you want to sort by.

Message flags next to each message provide additional information.

Message Flag	What It Means
	New message (one that has arrived since the last time you checked your mailbox).
	Unseen message (one that you have not yet opened).
	Opened message (one that you have opened at least once).
	Answered message (one that you have replied to).
	Deleted message (one that you have marked for deletion).

Changing the Way Mulberry Looks

All the screen shots in this document were made using Mulberry's three-pane view.

• From the Window menu, select Layout, then make your choice.



TIP: To make your Mulberry 3 display look like the Mulberry 2 display:

1. From the Window menu, select Layout, then Use Separate Windows.
2. From the Window menu, select Hide Preview.

TIP: To get rid of the little yellow information boxes that appear when the cursor is moved over a message, pull down the Help menu and select Detailed Tooltips so that it is no longer checked.

Working With Your Messages

HINT: To open a message in a new window, double-click the line for that message in the message list. You can also double-click a mail folder name to open it in a new window.

To print the selected message

• From the File menu, choose Print.

To reply to the selected message

• Click the Reply button in the upper left corner of the Mulberry window to reply only to the person who sent you the message you are replying to.

HINT: To see a list of the recipients of the original message so you can choose which ones to include in your reply, hold down the Alt key (Windows users) or the Option key (Macintosh users) while you click the Reply button. Check the appropriate diamonds. To uncheck a diamond, click the checkmark. When the diamonds are checked the way you want them, click Create Reply.

To forward the selected message

• Click the Forward button at the top of the Mulberry window.

To delete the selected message

1. Click the Delete button at the top of the Mulberry window.

The message will be flagged for deletion, and the Delete button will change to an Undelete button.

2. Click the Expunge button at the top of the Mulberry window to really delete—or expunge—all messages marked for deletion. Once messages have been expunged, they cannot be retrieved.

Forward to "Writing and Sending Messages."