Listmonk
★ 21.6kA self-hosted alternative to Mailchimp
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · Compose · BinaryNeeds Postgres63 active committers (12mo)
About
listmonk is a self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager intended for users who want to run email list infrastructure on their own servers. It is presented as a fast, feature-rich application...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- newsletter management
- mailing list management
- single-binary deployment
- Docker deployment
- database setup and upgrade
- live demo
Details
- Last Updated
- Jun 14, 2026
- Created
- Jun 26, 2019
- Install Methods
- dockerdocker-composebinary
- Requirements
- PostgreSQL database
- Backup & Export
- database-dump
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers
Docker Compose
2 services · database: postgres · infra: postgres
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (2 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ 03fd8ce · scanned Jun 4, 2026
# All LISTMONK_* env variables also support the LISTMONK_*_FILE pattern for loading secrets from files with Docker secrets and Podman
# eg: LISTMONK_ADMIN_USER -> LISTMONK_ADMIN_USER_FILE=/path/to/file_with_value
x-db-credentials: &db-credentials # Use the default POSTGRES_ credentials if they're available or simply default to "listmonk"
POSTGRES_USER: &db-user listmonk # for database user, password, and database name
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: &db-password listmonk
POSTGRES_DB: &db-name listmonk
services:
# listmonk app
app:
image: listmonk/listmonk:latest
container_name: listmonk_app
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "9000:9000" # To change the externally exposed port, change to: $custom_port:9000
networks:
- listmonk
hostname: listmonk.example.com # Recommend using FQDN for hostname
depends_on:
# ...
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