Development guide

New to Mailpile development? Want to contribute? Thinking of writing a plugin? Read on...

Turning on debugging

If you're developing Mailpile, you probably want a lot more debug output than otherwise. Simply:

set sys.debug = [terms]

where [terms] is a space-separated list of types of debug messages you want to get. Options include:

• log
• http
• compose
• sendmail

Writing plugins

• Look at the Plugin API
• Look at existing plugins

Committing to Mailpile core

• 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 and the Jinja2 templating engine. Then visit Themes