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.

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

$ ./mp --www --wait

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 --www=0.0.0.0:33411 --wait

Alternately, you can change the sys.http_host variable to 0.0.0.0. Setting this variable to disabled disables the server entirely.