Configuring mailpile

Clean install

Once you've got Mailpile running on your machine, from Mailpile's command line interface, do the following:

1. setup -- run the setup command to instantiate the absolute basics.
2. Point your web browser at http://localhost:33411

Setting up Basic Config

For best results, the first step is to tell the program your e-mail address and set up basic tags (New, Inbox, etc.) and filters so Mailpile will behave like a normal mail client. Mailpile can do this for you, but if you are importing lots of old mail, you may want to postpone the filter definition until after the import (see below), to start with a clean slate:

$ ./mp --setup
$ ./mp --set "profiles.0.email = [email protected]"
$ ./mp --set "profiles.0.name = Your Name"
...

If you do not have a local working mail server in /usr/sbin/sendmail, you may also want to configure a default outgoing SMTP server:

$ ./mp --set "profiles.0.route = smtp://[email protected]:[email protected]:25"
..

Mailpile does not by default access IMAP or POP3 servers directly, it relies on other tools (such as fetchmail) to take care of downloading new mail.

Note: You can add multiple accounts by replacing the 0 in the profile variable name with higher numbers.

Running from an alternative config directory

By default, Mailpile reads its config from ~/.mailpile

You can override this by setting the $MAILPILE_HOME environment variable, for example:

$ export MAILPILE_HOME=/home/user/.config/mailpile

or for a single run:

$ MAILPILE_HOME=/home/user/.mailpile-alternative ./mp

Other configuration

• See Config