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 = yourmail@domain.com"
$ ./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://postmaster@mailserver.org:password@smtp.mailserver.org: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.

Other configuration

• See Config