Listmonk VS Keila

I have mainly name and email fields in the newsletter signup and there is no verification. Then I manually blacklisted all the bots in the email service Listmonk.

Listmonk – An open-source alternative to Mailchimp just released version 3. It’s great as a stand-alone newsletter. Also seems like a low lift for capturing leads for side projects.

Here is another great self hosted solution that I came across. Really high performance (written in Go). No affiliation but well done open source product.

https://listmonk.app

When I searched for this I had a very hard time finding a right answer because all the results were SEO blogs advertising their newsletter services (Mailchimp, Convertkit, etc.), which is not the same thing.

So I wrote this overview covering all the options I found. Additional input is welcome.

Even though Listmonk seems like the best free & open source option, there aren't many guides for it and the documentation is quite limited. So [I've been having trouble getting it running on a CentOS server](https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/issues/1004#issuecomment-1...).

It's a shame that it seems to be used by thousands of people but almost no one bothers to create guides or improve the docs.

Keila is another one with similar features plus a visual (block) editor for designing the email template/content: https://github.com/pentacent/keila

Someone on r/selfhosted built an alternative for Mailchimp called Keila a while ago. (https://github.com/pentacent/keila). I haven't tried it myself but this sounds promising. You can use your own mailserver with it (which I recommend you do not selfhost for business purposes). As it is licensed right now, it should be way cheaper to use this instead of Mailchimp.

If that doesn’t fix it, please feel free to post a bug report with more details here: https://github.com/pentacent/keila/issues

I've used Keila in the past and was pretty happy w/ it.

What about keila (https://github.com/pentacent/keila) I haven't used it myself yet..

A cool feature that’s not quite ready yet but that I’m working on at the moment is the ability to add custom campaign data. This will allow you to create a template (e.g. for showing your most recent blog posts) and feed it with data via the API - giving you the easiest fully-automated email campaigns ever. I wrote a little thread over at Twitter about this (Draft PR on GitHub). I’m curious to hear if/how you’d use that feature!