Instruction manual Sirius v2.

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1. Introduction

With Sirius you are able to enhance your java handy to include a smart email client. Neither limits in number
and size of your emails apply as long as the memory in your handy is capable of holding them. The speciality
of Sirius is the strict optimization to minimize communication costs. With additional settings you can fine tune
the client to meet your own personal requirements, be it the mobile contract or your own taste. With Sirius
you can explore the standard functionality of professional email programs on your handy, in this composition
unsupported in any other comparable MIDlet.

• intuitive handling
• sending mails via SMTP and receiving via POP3
• managing mails in various folders
• forwarding or responding directly to received
mails
• address book with inclusion of addresses directly
from received mails
• highly cost efficient by compressing all
transmitted mails
• intelligent filters for better legibility and/or cost
reduction (appendices are not transmitted and
html-mails are converted into text representation)
• by choice you can limit your reception to sender
and subject only. you only load down the mail you
actually want to read.
• emails are only deleted from your mailbox if
specifically requested by you.

2. Download

You will be able to find Sirius, the smart email client from nubix, by following these addresses:

• in the internet
http://www.nubix.com see under products / downloads
http://www.nubix.de see under Produkte / Downloads

• via WAP
http://80.86.187.177/wap/index.wml see downloads

3. Installation

• update
Navigate in your handy to the installed Sirius client. Before starting Sirius you will find the
possibilities to update and version check listed under details. Your handy will consequently try via
OTA to save the new version over the old installation. Thus you retain all your mails, settings and
licence number.

• installation via OTA

Install Sirius by entering the following URL into your WAP browser:
http://80.86.187.177/wap/index.wml. Choose the most recent version of Sirius out of the download
list and follow the instructions on your handy.

• installation on PC
Alternatively you are able to copy the current archive from the URL
http://www.nubix.com/files/sirius/sirius.zip to your home PC, unpack it there and install it on your
handy. Use the software and tools that come along with your handy (via connection cable, infrared or
Bluetooth).

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4. Registration

After successfully installing Sirius and contacting the server for the first time, a licence number will be
transmitted to the program. You can register and validate your Sirius client by supplying this very licence
number along with your payment. The licence number is listed as item number 4 in the info menu.

To register, you are not required to supply any name or other personal data. Simply transfer the registration
fee to our account. Amount and account are both to be found on our web page:

http://www.nubix.com/eng/produkte/fs_registrierung.html

We will have your email client validated no more than 2 working days after payment (consider time for
money transfer).

5.1 Inbox

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 • fetch mail
Here you can fetch emails from the email server of your provider, identified by the data you specified
under options.

In the inbox you can fetch your emails. The icon in front of the email identifies the status of the
corresponding email. There are 4 predefined statuses:

– a fetched email that has not been viewed yet

– a fetched and opened email
– you only fetched sender and subject of an email
– email is marked to be purged

Once you have fetched and opened an email you have the following options:

• delete
This email will be either deleted immediately from your client or, if so specified under options, entry
'synchronize server’ checked, only marked for deletion. In the latter case the email is purged from
your client and from the email server the next time you contact the email server.

• to address bock
If you want to save the sender of an email choosing this will add a new entry into your address book
using the name and email address from your email.

• fetch text
Having chosen 'fetch subject only' within the options menu you will only have the sender and subject
present when loading new emails. Now you have the possibility to selectively fetch the text of the
email.

• to archive
If you want to keep an email you can hereby move it to the archive folder.

• reply
Here you can answer directly to the email. A new email is created with automatically prepared
recipient, subject and message.

• forward
Here you can forward an email. A new email is created with automatically prepared subject and
message.

5.2 Sent

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 • delete
This action deletes the respective email from the folder, thus freeing memory on your handy.

• to archive
If you want to keep an email move it with this option to the archive folder.

• to address book
Choose this option to save the recipient of the email into your address book. A new item will be
added to your address book containing the address of the recipient of the email.

• forward
Here you can forward an email. A new email is created with automatically prepared subject and
message.

5.3 Outbox

• edit
Here you can edit a new email. You will be able to add the recipient(s) including cc, the subject and
the message itself.

• send
Each edited email will be kept in the outbox until explicitly sent, what you can do with this very
option. All pending emails will be sent at once.

When you have an email from the outbox opened, you can do the following with it:

• edit
You can reedit any email not yet sent.

• delete
If you want a prepared email no longer to be sent you can delete it.

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5.4 Archive

• delete
This deletes the respective email, thus freeing memory on your handy.

• to address book
Hereby you can save the recipient of an email to your address book. A new item will be added to
your address book containing the address of the recipient of the email.

• forward
Here you can forward an email. A new email is created with automatically prepared subject and
message.

5.5 Address book

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 • new
Here you create a new entry in the address book.

If you opened an already existing entry you are offered the following actions:

• edit
You can add to or alter data of the address entry.

• delete
You delete the selected address entry.

5.6 Options

Following is the description to all options that can be set with Sirius.

• name
Here you enter your own name. This is required for sending emails.

• email address
Enter your proper email address here. This is required for sending emails.

• POP3 server
Here you specify the POP3 server of your email provider hosting the mailbox you want fetch your
emails from using Sirius.

• POP3 user name

Here you enter your POP3 user name. This information is required to successfully identify yourself
towards your provider.

• POP3 password
Here you enter your POP3 user password. This information is required to authenticate yourself
towards your provider in order to gain access to your email account.

• download max (kB)

Here you can limit the size of fetched emails. In the case that this limit is reached during email
transfer, Sirius will shorten the transmission. Please consider that choosing an extremely small value
at this point can result in having Sirius not fetching any emails due to the fact that even the
shortened emails are larger than the specified maximum size.

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 • get subject only
By choosing this option Sirius will fetch sender and subject only for all incoming emails (thus
reducing the traffic during email fetch). You have later the option to selectively fetch entire emails.

• hold connection (GPRS)

If you choose this option Sirius will maintain an open data connection for 15 minutes or closes the
data connection at program termination. With GPRS and depending on the provider and contract,
you are required to pay an connection-established-fee. With this option you can minimize these extra
costs. By using CSD or HSCSD you should turn off this option!!!

• use compression
Usually Sirius is taking care of shrinking the amount of your transmitted data by 30-50% using
compression algorithms. Since this may take up a considerable amount of processing time,
especially on slower handy devices, you may want to turn this option off.

• with notification
Request a confirmation by the recipient for outgoing emails and answer confirmation requests of
incoming emails automatically. Confirmations of your emails are sent to the email address you have
chosen as email address with the options menu.

• synchronize client
Choosing this option results in having emails, that have been deleted on the server, being deleted
from your handy the next time a connection is established to your email provider (synchronisation).

• synchronize server
Choosing this option results in a synchronisation in the opposite direction. Deleting emails from your
handy will result in their deletion from the server next time establishing a connection to it.

• list view
Here you can choose, in which way you want to view your emails. Either you have the sender or
subject displayed of each email.

• language
Here you can change the menu language used by Sirius. Take your choice and press 'back', Sirius
immediately changes its language accordingly.

5.7 Info

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Here you find various information regarding your handy and Sirius. These are:

• manufacturer
Sirius is a product of nubix Software-Design ltd.

• technical support
Sirius support and assistance is available on our homepage.

• version
Here you will find the current version of Sirius installed on your handy.

• licence number
Here you find the licence number required to register Sirius.

• memory (total)
Here you find how much working memory (heap) is included in your handy.

• memory (free)
Here you find how much working memory (heap) is currently available on your handy.

6. Notes / Hints

Some handy devices limit the memory for internal databases, in which your emails are stored. Therefore it is
quite possible to exceed email storage capacity before reaching the actual physical memory limit of your
handy.

If you delete the currently installed version of Sirius, all emails, settings and licence number will be gone, too.
To omit this you can perform an update without previously deleting the old version of Sirius. Once you have
Sirius validated keep the licence number written down somewhere else as well as a backup. If needs arise
(handy broken, stolen, &c.) you can re-validate your licence free of charge via email with this licence
number.

7. FAQ

• WAP works but Sirius cannot establish a connection. What went wrong?
There might be two different reasons:
1. Some mobile service providers work with different gateways for WAP and internet. Since Sirius
requires an internet connection your connection profile should also include the configuration of the
internet access. How to set this up you can read in the manual of your mobile phone and the
information of your provider.
2. On some mobile phones (like the Siemens M50) there are different connection profiles for WAP
browser and MIDlets. Possibly you haven't configured your connection profile for MIDlets yet. How to
set this up you can read in the manual of your mobile phone and the information of your provider.

• Is the number of emails limited?

No. Actually there is: theoretically up to 2 billion emails can be managed by Sirius. In the real world
the memory capacity of your mobile phone will set the limit.

• Is the size of emails limited?

Yes. Actually there is: theoretically emails up to 32 kBytes can be handled. Depending on the mobile
phone there exists actual limits as to the size of data within the internal database, usually allowing
between 3 and 10 kBytes. Larger mails will be shortened to meet this limits.

• What happens to attachments or html emails?

Attachments are removed by our filter before transmission. Html emails will be transferred to simple
text before transmission. Colours, shapes and paraphernalia will be ignored.

• How can I control transfer charges?

Sirius allows several settings to save costs. For one thing it is possible to receive emails in a reduced
way by sender and subject only (setting 'header only'). Afterwards you can download the emails you
actually want to read. Secondly you can limit the download size (setting 'download limit(kB)'). If,
however, you choose the limit too small it might happen that no email can be transmitted at all. Sirius
only transmits entire emails, not chunks of it.

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 • What happens to my licence when I delete the MIDlet (e.g. a new mobile phone)?
Your Sirius licence does not vanish. You can register your new licence via mail or phone. To activate
your licence again we require the prove of the previous acquisition of your licence. Simply supply the
original and the new licence key.

• How much is Sirius?

For private evaluation you can use Sirius free of charge for a limited period. Then you have to
acquire a user licence. Sirius lets you know about it by supplying the appropriate key. The current
price of Sirius can be found on our registration page. Remember that besides the licence fee you will
also have to cover the internet charges of your mobile service provider. You will find their fees within
the corresponding contracts. You can check for the cost benefits offered by Sirius on our product
page.

• Why don't I have access to my internal address book?

MIDlets are based on the MIDP standard and thus running within a java sandbox. Consequently no
MIDlet has access to the functionality intrinsic to the mobile phone including the address book.

• What happens when I receive a call while working with Sirius?

The depends on two factors: the abilities of your mobile phone and if you want to take the call or not.
If you reject the call nothing happens and the MIDlet reappears immediately on your display after
rejecting the call. This will work on all mobile phones. If, however, you want to take the call it all
depends on the type of mobile phone you own. On some devices (like the Siemens M50) the MIDlet
will be terminated without saving any changes, whereas on others (like the Nokia 6310i) you return
to the MIDlet after finishing the call. To be sure how your mobile phone works in this respect you
should try it out.

• How can I tell how many kBytes have already been transferred and received via GPRS?
This depends on the type of mobile phone you own. Some provide the facilities to display the
transferred data (e.g. the Siemens M50 displays the total amount of GPRS within menu\settings\data
exchange\GPRS-info and the Nokia 6310i displays it within menu\calling lists\GPRS counter), some
don't.

8. Licence agreement

Please read the terms of the licence agreement carefully before making use of our software.

If you did not acquire a different licence agreement with nubix Software-Design GmbH, you agree to the terms of this licence agreement
when using our software.

Shareware or evaluation version

This software is neither public domain nor freeware. The shareware or test version allows you to try and evaluate our software without
any further obligations during a limited time. If you want to continue using our Software after the expiration of the evaluation period you
are to register it properly.

A shareware version of this software may be distributed freely as long as all files in the archive remain unaltered. When publishing it a
copy of the respective media is to be sent to nubix Software-Design ltd.

disclaimer

Nubix Software-Design ltd. is not liable to any kind of costs or damage that may result, directly or indirectly, by using this software.
Furthermore any claims are rejected as to functionality, suitability for a certain purpose, data integrity or security.

It is assured that the software will principally perform in the way described in the user manual.

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© nubix Software-Design ltd., Dresden 2000 – 2003, Germany

nubix is a registered trade mark of nubix Software-Design ltd.