Self-host listmonk

A self-hosted newsletter and mailing-list manager distributed as a single Go binary backed by PostgreSQL. It handles subscriber lists, campaigns, templates and transactional mail sent through your own SMTP servers.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 512 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# listmonk + Postgres — official compose; it runs the DB --install step on first start
curl -LO https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/raw/master/docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d
# open http://SERVER_IP:9000 and create the Super Admin user

Head-to-head

NewsletterSep 2026

listmonk

vs

Keila

The editor-and-forms newsletter tool vs. the single Go binary built for volume and scripting.

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