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Brennan Novak edited this page Jul 14, 2015 · 7 revisions

Technical documentation

Adding Mailboxes

1 Add mailbox mailpile> add /path/to/your/something.mbox

Once that is done importing the new mailbox you just added, you may want to apply some tags. Do that by the following commands

  1. Add the tag "Custom Tag" mailpile> tags/add Custom Tag 2.Search for that mailbox mailpile> search mailbox:something.mbox
  2. Tag that search with "Custom Tag" mailpile> tag +custom-tag all

There you go, now that mail will show up in your Mailpile under the

Deleting Mailboxes

Currently to make entire mailboxes disappear is a bit of a hack (and only works from the CLI), but here you go:

  1. Search for that mailbox mailpile> "search mailbox:something.mbox"
  2. Tag that search as Trash mailpile> "tag -inbox +trash all" on the CLI
  3. Quit mailpile and edit .mailpile/mailpile.cfg
  4. Replace the mailboxes you are deleting with the path with /dev/null
  5. Restart mailpile
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