Last updated: 05 March 2002

This is a simple  guide to help you setup and use Murasu Mailer version 3.0

This version of Murasu Mailer requires Murasu Anjal2000 Second Edition. Current users of Anjal2000 may want to look at the Anjal2000 Second Edition page to find out what is new in Anjal2000-SE.

This document will be constantly updated. For the latest updates and user guides on other Murasu software tools, please visit the Quick Start Pages at http://www.murasu.com/help/quickstart.

This guide has 5 sections:

Murasu Mailer is a tool that can help you send quick email messages in English and Tamil without invoking a sophisticated email system. It is by no means a replacement for popular tools like Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express or Eudora.  For a complete email environment, we suggest that you use either of these tools. You may compose Tamil messages directly in these tools with the help of Murasu Anjal2000. Details on how you can configure these tools can be found in the Murasu Anjal Quick Start guide. Quick Start Guides are at http://www.murasu.com/help/quickstart.

To use Murasu Mailer, you must have a direct Internet connection. You may use this if you are dialing up to the Internet from your home or your computer is connected to the Internet without a firewall in between.

If you do not have a direct connection, you may specify some settings in the Mailer with the help of your systems or network administrator. Setup details are provided in the section below.

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The figure below shows the setup screen of Murasu Mailer. You may fill in your name in English and Tamil and your email address.
 

 
You may leave the Port number blank.

If you want to get a copy of every email you send, put a tick on "Always send me a copy". This is highly recommended as the Mailer does not keep copies of outgoing emails.

SMTP Server

This is the email sever (a computer that provides email delivery services) that Murasu Mailer will connect to in order to deliver your messages. If you are directly connected to the Internet (that is, you are dialing to your Internet Service Provider from home, or connected to a network that does not have a firewall), you may leave this blank. Murasu Mailer will use a server of its own to send the message.

If you do know the name of your SMTP server, it is highly recommended that you enter the full name of your SMTP server here. Using an SMTP server closer to your computer will certainly improve the delivery time of your message from your computer.

Corporate Networks and Firewalls

If you are in a network that is inside a firewall, Murasu Mailer will not be able to contact its own email server (i.e. SMTP server). Therefore, you must provide the SMTP server name that is used in your network. The server names are very specific. You may check with your systems or network administrators to get the SMTP server name.

Sometimes, you may also need to specify a different port number. Although this is not usually the case, it is best to check with your administrator on the settings.

After Sending

There are three things you can ask Murasu Mailer to do after it has sent your message.

• Do Nothing

• Pop up a message

• Close the Mailer

Click on the entry and select the appropriate action.

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To send emails, fill in the email address of the recipients in the "To" section.  You may also add addresses in the "Cc" and "Bcc" sections. Your message will be sent to all the email addresses in To, Cc and Bcc. The addresses in the Bcc (called Blind Cc) section will not be shown in the message delivered.  In other words, the recipients will not know whom you have included in the  Bcc list.

You may type the Subject of your message in English or Tamil. Not all email servers on the Internet will be able to pass Tamil characters in the subject line. Therefore, Murasu Mailer will "Romanise" the Tamil words to contain only plain ASCII characters for safe delivery of your message.

The content of your message can be in Tamil and/or English. The Mailer will deliver the text without any changes.

 
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When a message is composed in a certain character set and is viewed with a different character set, we will see meaningless sequence of characters. For example, if the text is in TSCII and if we are viewing with the TAB_InaiMathi font, or vice-versa, we will not see the text correctly.

Fortunately, Murasu Anjal provides a way to convert these text from one format to another. To do this, you must first decide which format you want your text in. Let's take for example you want your text in TSCII format.

Checking the format

If your text does not appear correctly in the Mailer, you can check which format your text is in. Select a portion of the text (the more you select the more accurate the results). While the text is selected, pull down the "+Murasu" menu and select "Check Encoding". Murasu Anjal will check the text and display a message stating the format the message is in.  If it says that the text is in TSCII, and you are not seeing it correctly, then you should set your encoding to TSCII.

Check the bottom right corner of your Mailer Window. The character set you have chosen will be displayed. If it's not TSCII, pull down the "+Murasu" menu again, select "Set Encoding" and pick "TSCII 1.7 Tamil".  This will set the font to TSCu_InaiMathi and your Tamil text will appear as it should.

Converting the Text

Let's assume that in the example above, the text was checked and found to be in TAB. If you want to retain the text in TAB and view it correctly, see that your encoding is set to TAB as well (see the 'Checking the format' paragraph above).

However, if you want to convert the text that is in TAB to TSCII, select the entire text first; pull down the "+Murasu" menu; select "Convert Selection" and pick "To TSCII 1.7".

This will convert the entire text to TSCII format. Just ensure that you have also set the encoding to TSCII to read the converted text.

Other formats

Murasu Mailer will work with Murasu Anjal to automatically detect and convert Tamil text that are in Anjal, TSCII, TAB, Murasu, Vikatan, Lippi and Kanian formats. You may use the steps above to convert from these formats. However, the font will only be set by the mailer for the formats listed in Section 4. (Note that we have used "format" and "encoding" interchangeably. For our purpose, we can assume both these words to mean the same).

If you have text in other formats, they can also be converted with the help of Murasu Anjal. It requires an additional step and these actions can be performed through the "+Murasu" menu. You may want to refer to the user guides on Murasu Anjal2000 and the "+Murasu" menu. These documents are listed in the Quick Start Guides page in Murasu.Com.
 

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