Manual configuration

Please refer to Configuring mailpile for an easy guide to Mailpile configuration.

Once you've got Mailpile running on your machine, do the following:

1. Point your web browser at http://localhost:33411
2. Use the GUI installer that you see from accessing the above URL

A non-web-based setup procedure is in the works. Currently there are too many moving parts and too much of the code is under development to document the entire procedure.

Running from an alternative config directory

By default, Mailpile reads its config from .local/share/Mailpile/ (Or ~/.mailpile in previous versions, which presence will still be tested for backward compatibility).

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