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Mailtrain v1 has been deprecated. It contains security flaws which won't likely be fixed. We advise you to use Mailtrain v2 instead. Check it out here https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain/tree/v2

Mailtrain

Mailtrain is a self hosted newsletter application built on Node.js (v7+) and MySQL (v5.5+ or MariaDB).

Features

• Subscriber list management
• List segmentation
• Custom fields
• Email templates
• Large CSV list import files

Subscribe to Mailtrain Newsletter here (uses Mailtrain obviously)

Hardware Requirements

• 1 vCPU
• 1024 MB RAM

Quick Start - Deploy with Docker

Requirements:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Steps:

Depending on how you have configured your system and Docker you may need to prepend the commands below with sudo.

• Download Mailtrain files using git: git clone git://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain.git (or download zipped repo) and open Mailtrain folder cd mailtrain
• Copy the file docker-compose.override.yml.tmpl to docker-compose.override.yml, modify if needed.
• Bring up the stack with: docker-compose up -d
• Start: docker-compose start
• Open http://localhost:3000/ (change the host name localhost to the name of the host where you are deploying the system).
• Authenticate as user admin with password test
• Navigate to http://localhost:3000/settings and update service configuration, especially replace the value in Service Address (URL) from localhost to the actual IP or domain if installed on a server, otherwise e.g. image upload will not work.
• Navigate to http://localhost:3000/users/account and update user information and password.

Quick Start - Manual Install (any OS that supports Node.js)

Requirements:

• Mailtrain requires at least Node.js v7. If you want to use an older version of Node.js then you should use version v1.24 of Mailtrain. You can either download it here or if using git then run git checkout v1.24.0 before starting it

1. Download Mailtrain files using git: git clone git://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain.git (or download zipped repo) and open Mailtrain folder cd mailtrain
2. Run npm install --production in the Mailtrain folder to install required dependencies
3. Copy config/default.toml as config/production.toml and update MySQL and any other settings in it
4. Run the server NODE_ENV=production npm start
5. Open http://localhost:3000/
6. Authenticate as admin:test
7. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/settings and update service configuration, especially replace the value in Service Address (URL) from localhost to the actual IP or domain if installed on a server, otherwise e.g. image upload will not work.
8. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/users/account and update user information and password

Read The Docs

For more information, please read the docs.

License

• Versions 1.22.0 and up GPL-V3.0
• Versions 1.21.0 and up: EUPL-1.1
• Versions 1.19.0 and up: MIT
• Up to versions 1.18.0 GPL-V3.0