listmonk is a standalone, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager. It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary. It uses a PostgreSQL database as its data store.

Visit listmonk.app

Installation

Docker

The latest image is available on DockerHub at listmonk/listmonk:latest. Use the sample docker-compose.yml to run listmonk and Postgres DB with docker-compose as follows:

Demo

mkdir listmonk-demo
sh -c "$(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knadh/listmonk/master/install-demo.sh)"

The demo does not persist Postgres after the containers are removed. DO NOT use this demo setup in production.

Production

• docker-compose up db to run the Postgres DB.
• docker-compose run --rm app ./listmonk --install to setup the DB (or --upgrade to upgrade an existing DB)
• Run docker-compose up app and visit http://localhost:9000.

More information on docs.

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Binary

download an prepare config file

• Download the latest release and extract the listmonk binary.
• ./listmonk --new-config to generate config.toml. Then, edit the file.

prerequisites Debian: system user and PostgreSQL

• install PostgreSQL apt install postgresql
• create system user with config.toml data for the database: adduser listmonk
• create the postgreSQL database, the user and grant permissions: su - postgres and then acces de PostgreSQL console psql

  postgres=# CREATE DATABASE listmonk;
  postgres=# CREATE USER listmonk WITH PASSWORD 'listmonk';
  postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE listmonk TO listmonk;
  

proceed to install

• ./listmonk --install to setup the Postgres DB (or --upgrade to upgrade an existing DB. Upgrades are idempotent and running them multiple times have no side effects).
• Run ./listmonk and visit http://localhost:9000.

after install, fine tunning

oncen checked it works, stop the process.

• move the files to where you like most, usually /opt/listmonk/ or inside /var/www/html/
• change ownership of the files to www-data or whatever user you have assigned the webserver chown -R www-data:www-data listmonk
• run listmonk as a service, create /etc/systemd/system/listmonk.service with:

  [Unit]
  Description=Listmonk server
  After=syslog.target network.target postgressql.target
  
  [Service]
  Type=simple
  # the user and group executing the service
  User=www-data
  Group=www-data
  # the directory where you have listmonk
  WorkingDirectory=/var/www/html/listmonk
  # the file to execute
  ExecStart=/var/www/html/listmonk/listmonk
  Restart=always
  RestartSec=10
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  

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### Heroku 

Using the [Nginx buildpack](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nginx) can be used to deploy listmonk on Heroku and use Nginx as a proxy to setup basicauth. 
This one-click [Heroku deploy button](https://github.com/bumi/listmonk-heroku) provides an automated default deployment.

[![Deploy](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.svg)](https://heroku.com/deploy?template=https://github.com/bumi/listmonk-heroku)

Please note that [configuration options](https://listmonk.app/docs/configuration) must be set using [environment configuration variables](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars).



## Developers
listmonk is a free and open source software licensed under AGPLv3. If you are interested in contributing, refer to the [developer setup](https://listmonk.app/docs/developer-setup). The backend is written in Go and the frontend is Vue with Buefy for UI. 


## License
listmonk is licensed under the AGPL v3 license.