Using the Web Interface

Mailpile has a built-in web server and will eventually include a proper web-based interface for searching, reading and composing e-mail.

The web interface currently has just one input field, where you can type terms to search for. If you start the line with a / character you can use any of the normal CLI commands, including viewing tags or reading messages (/view 1-15).

Maybe someday you will build a fancier UI for us. :-)

If you want to run the web UI without the CLI interface, start the program like this:

$ ./mp --www

The server listens on localhost:33411 by default, meaning you cannot access it from a different computer (for security reasons). You can change the host and port by setting the http_host and http_port variables (more about internal variables below). For example if you want to run the server to be accessible from another computer as well, you can run Mailpile with:

$ ./mp --set sys.http_host=0.0.0.0

Setting sys.http_host to disabled disables the server.