📨 Setup Listmonk — Self-Hosted Newsletter Platform

Deploy Listmonk, a high-performance self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager. Send transactional emails and newsletters to thousands of subscribers from your own server.

⚠️ This script is provided for demo and testing purposes only.

📦 Resources & Setup Scripts

Grab the automated bash script from GitHub to follow along.

Quick Install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/email/listmonk/listmonk-ubuntu.sh
chmod +x listmonk-ubuntu.sh
sudo bash listmonk-ubuntu.sh

Tutorial Steps

1 Download & Run the Script

The script installs Docker, sets up Listmonk with a PostgreSQL database, and starts both containers. Default admin credentials are created automatically.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/email/listmonk/listmonk-ubuntu.sh
chmod +x listmonk-ubuntu.sh
sudo bash listmonk-ubuntu.sh

2 Access the Dashboard

Open your browser and navigate to Listmonk:

http://YOUR-SERVER-IP:9000

3 Configure SMTP and Create Lists

Go to Settings → SMTP to configure your mail server (Gmail, SES, Mailgun, etc.). Then create mailing lists and import or add subscribers through the Subscribers section.

4 Create and Send Campaigns

Go to Campaigns → New Campaign. Write your email using the rich text or HTML editor, select target lists, and schedule or send immediately. Monitor stats from the dashboard.

Ports Used

Port	Protocol	Purpose
9000	TCP	Web UI & API

Files Location

/root/docker/listmonk/docker-compose.yml