Using Mulberry 3 for E-Mail, continued

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

ATTENTION USERS OF OTHER U-M E-MAIL SERVICES! Please contact your departmental administrator to find out what you should enter in the Mail Server and Email Address fields. Enter that information instead of the CAEN information provided below.

New CAEN Students Who Want to Add the CAEN E-Mail Server

As of Fall Term 2002, all College of Engineering incoming freshmen receive an ITCS mailbox as their primary mailbox. However, they each also receive an e-mail account on the CAEN e-mail server. To access mailboxes on both ITCS and CAEN mail servers, add the CAEN server as a new account.
  1. From the File menu, select Preferences. (Mac OS X users, select Preferences from the Mulberry menu.)

  2. In the upper right hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click the Advanced radio button.

  3. In the upper left hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click Accounts. (Windows users will click a tab; Macintosh users will click a button.)

  4. At the top, from the Account pop-up menu, select New.

  5. In the Account Name field, type CAEN IMAP and click OK.

  6. In the Server field, enter mail.engin.umich.edu.

  7. Below the Server field, click the Authentication tab (if it is not already selected)

  8. From the Method pop-up menu, select Kerberos V4 (do not leave plain text selected). The checkboxes available under Method will change.

  9. Check both the Use Default Server Principal and Use Default User ID checkboxes.

  10. Click OK.

CAEN Users Who Want to Access the CAEN E-Mail Server

CAEN e-mail users who want to use Mulberry to access their e-mail exclusively on CAEN servers will need to configure their copy of Mulberry to use the CAEN e-mail server instead of the ITCS e-mail server.

  1. From the File menu, select Preferences. (Mac OS X users, select Preferences from the Mulberry menu.)

  2. In the upper right hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click the Simple radio button.

  3. In the Mail Server field, enter mail.engin.umich.edu.

  4. Click OK.

How to Delete an Account

If your needs change, and you need to delete an ITCS, CAEN, or other account from your preferences, herešs how. You can always recreate the account later if need be. You are not actually deleting or creating the account itself—just a path to it so that Mulberry can find it.

  1. From the Mulberry File menu, select Preferences. (Mac OS X users, select Preferences from the Mulberry menu.)

  2. In the upper right hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click the Advanced radio button.

  3. In the upper left hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click Accounts.

  4. At the top, from the Account pop-up menu, select the account that you want to delete.

  5. From that same Account pop-up menu, select Delete.

  6. At the Do you really want to delete this account? dialog box, click OK.

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

Windows users who want the formatting in their messages, including their signature file, to look like the formatting that recipients will see, need to set Mulberry to use fixed-width fonts.
  1. From the File menu, select Preferences. (Mac OS X users, select Preferences from the Mulberry menu.)

  2. In the Remote Preferences dialog box, click the Advanced radio button.

    3. Screen shot showing the Advanced radio button.

  3. In the Remote Preferences dialog box, click the Fonts tab, then click the Change button next to the Plain Text box.

    4. Screen shot showing the Fonts tab and Change button.

  4. In the Font dialog box, select a fixed-width font, such as Courier New, then click OK.

    5. Screen shot showing selection of a fixed-width font.

  5. In the Remote Preferences box, click Save Default, then click OK.

Appendix C: Using Disconnected Mode

Disconnected mode allows you to download your mail to your computer, disconnect from the Internet, and then work with your mail. While you are disconnected, messages you send are queued on your computer to be sent later, when you are connected. Also, Mulberry records any actions, such as deleting messages or moving them to folders; it then actually takes those actions when you reconnect to the Internet. Disconnected mode allows laptop users to work on their e-mail when they are away from an Internet connections, and it allows dial-in users to save on their dial-in time.

To use disconnected mode, you must first set up your Mulberry preferences for disconnected operation. This lets Mulberry know which of your mailboxes to download to your computer when you disconnect.

Setting Preferences for Disconnected Operation

  1. From the Mulberry File menu, select Preferences. (Mac OS X users, select Preferences from the Mulberry menu.)

  2. In the upper right hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click the Advanced radio button.

  3. In the upper left hand corner of the Remote Preferences window, click Accounts. (Windows users will click a tab; Macintosh users will click a button.)

  4. Set up for viewing received mail in disconnected mode by doing the following:

    5. Screen shot showing selections to make for viewing received mail in disconnected mode.

    1. From the Account pop-up menu, choose the account you want to use for disconnected operation‹the account where you receive your e-mail. If you use ITCS's e-mail, choose IMAP; it will likely already be selected.

    2. Click the Options tab. (It is below the Server field.)

    3. Check the Allow Disconnected Operations checkbox.

  5. Set up for sending mail in disconnected mode by doing the following:

    6. Screen shot showing selections to make for sending mail in disconnected mode.

    1. From the Account pop-up menu, select SMTP (this is the server that handles the sending of your e-mail).

    2. Click the Options tab.

    3. Check the Use Local Queues for Sending checkbox

  6. Click OK. The Remote Preferences window will close.

  7. Windows users:

    1. In the Mulberry (Connected) window, right-click the icon for your INBOX. (Click the INBOX with your right mouse button.)

      2. Screen shot of where to right-click your INBOX.

    2. From the menu that appears, select Properties.

    Macintosh users:

    1. In the Mulberry (Connected) window, click the icon for your INBOX to select it.

      2. Screen shot showing selection of INBOX.

    2. From the Edit menu, select Properties.

  8. In the Mailbox window, do the following:

    9. Screen shot of Mailbox window, showing what to select.

    1. Click the Options tab. (Macintosh users: Click the Options button.)

    2. In the list of options, check the checkbox next to Synchronise on Disconnect.

    3. Click OK.

Working in Disconnected Mode

Disconnecting
  1. Open Mulberry in connected mode. This is necessary so you can download your messages to your computer for later disconnected operation.

  2. From the File menu, select Disconnect.

  3. In the Disconnect Dialog box, indicate whether you want your entire INBOX or just your new messages downloaded when you disconnect:

    4. Screen shot of selections to make in the Disconnect dialog box.

    HINT: To download additional mailboxes when you disconnect (one-time only), click the traingle next to Show Mailbox Information (the name changes to Hide Mailbox Information), then click the Add button, select a mailbox(es), and click OK.

    To download a particular mailbox every time you disconnect, follow Steps 8-9 below, selecting that particular mailbox.

    WARNING! If you use a dial-in connection and the mailbox(es) you are downloading contain a lot of messages it may take a long time to download them. Watch the status bar at the bottom of the three-pane Mulberry window to see how downloading is progressing.

  4. Click OK. This will disconnect your dial-in connection or otherwise disconnect Mulberry from the Internet.

  5. Your Mulberry window will show that you have disconnected.

    6. Screen shot of Mulberry window with Disconnected indicator.

You can now read and reply to the messages in your INBOX. You can also compose and "send" new messages. Messages you send while disconnected are queued for later sending when you connect to the Internet. To check your queue of messages waiting to be sent, pull down the File menu and select Show Outgoing Queues.

NOTE: If, while you are disconnected, you open a mailbox that you have not downloaded (such as sent-mail), it will appear empty. This is only because the mail was not downoaded to your computer. If there was mail in that folder, it is still there on the e-mail server.

Reconnecting

  1. From the Mulberry File menu, select Connect.

  2. In the Connect Dialog box, click OK.

    3. Screen shot of Connect dialog box.

  3. In the dialog box asking you for your Remote Access password, type your UMICH Kerberos password, and click OK.

  4. Your modem will dial and connect you to the Internet or, if you are using another connection method, Mulberry's connection to the Internet will be re-established.

    5. TROUBLESHOOTING: If you get an error message such as "TCP/IP network not ready," click OK, and then pull down the File menu and choose Connect.

DON'T PANIC: Sometimes Mulberry does not get information about your folders when it reconnects, so it appears that they are empty even though they still contain messages. To get Mulberry to update the information, (1) click the affected folder name in your IMAP window, (2) from the Mailbox menu, select Display Heirarchy, and then (3) from the submenu, select Refresh.

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