Development guide
New to Mailpile development? Want to contribute? Thinking of writing a plugin? Read on...
If you're developing Mailpile, you probably want a lot more debug output than otherwise. Simply:
set sys.debug = ["log"]
where ["log"] is a list of types of debug messages you want to see printed out. Options include:
- log
- http
- compose
- sendmail
- Look at the Plugin API
- Look at the Front-end Plugin API
- Look at existing plugins sketches https://github.com/mailpile/plugins
- Come hang out on our IRC channel - introduce yourself. It's easier to get into things if you chat with us. :-)
- If you're a backend developer, go read mailpile/app.py, mailpile/command.py and mailpile/ui.py at the very least. Take note of the "session" and "config" objects that are floating about. They're very central.
- If you're a frontend developer, familiarize yourself with the Commands structure, the Search Result Json and the Jinja2 templating engine. Then visit Themes