Reading Email with Mulberry
The current version of Mulberry used for DAMTP Windows pcs is v3.0.3. We use the default install as provided by the Computing Service but we have made our own method of starting it. The way we do it now allows multiple numbers of people to read their email using Mulberry on a single pc without the need to all login separately.
To start Mulberry, on the desktop of each newly installed pc should be an icon labelled, '1st Time Mulberry User'. There might also be other Mulberry looking icons on the desktop but they will have user names underneath them. These are for people who have already run the '1st Time Mulberry User' program and created their own icon for their own email. We will create such an icon now.
Clicking the '1st Time Mulberry User' will bring up a new window:
Type in your CRSid, your username, press return once done. You will then be asked for your Christian (first) name, again type it in followed by return. You'll then be asked for your Surname, again, press return once done. You are then asked to confirm your details, press return if they're correct, or you can type 'quit' to quit out of Mulberry.
The startup script will then map the M: drive to your samba drive (similar to what your N: drive is). If you're not the user that is currently logged into the pc you're working on, you will be asked to type in a password to do this network drive mapping. Type in your windows password, the one you use to log into a windows pc.
Once your password has been accepted (if you type in the wrong password, the complete program will simply shutdown. Re-start it by clicking the '1st Time Mulberry User' icon again), Mulberry will then start up. After a few seconds, you will be asked to type in another password.
This time, you need to type in your Unix password. At roughly the same time, a new desktop icon will be created. This will be your icon used by you to start Mulberry in the future to read your email.
Mulberry will now open up, read in your preference.mbp file (stored in your N:\mulberry\ directory) and read in your email. If you don't have a preferences.mbp file, during the startup procedure, the script will notice you haven't got the mbp file. Copy a 'default' one across from a server, edit in your CRSid, Christian (first) and Surname that you typed in earlier and save the file into your N:\mulberry directory, all done automatically. The preferences.mbp file contains the addresses of the email servers along with the settings that you make in the preferences and spelling options found in the File and Edit menus.
When you want to read your email on a pc that you've already used Mulberry on, you simply need to double click the desktop icon with your CRSid name under. You won't get asked your Christian (first) name, Surname etc as it already knows that. The next stage you'll need to complete is typing in your Unix password once Mulberry has loaded: easy.
One current 'problem' with Mulberry v3.0.3 is that it produces an error message when you close it down.
Ignore this message, click OK; there's no harm done to your emails. It is a problem the program writers are aware of.
To learn how to use Mulberry, look at the following pdf files
QuickStart for Windows v3.0/3.1