Mailtrain

Mailtrain is a self hosted newsletter application built on Node.js (v10+) and MySQL (v8+) or MariaDB (v10+).

Features

• Subscriber list management
• List segmentation
• Custom fields
• Email templates (including MJML-based templates)
• Large CSV list import files
• Custom reports
• Automation (triggered and RSS campaigns)
• Multiple users with granular user permissions and flexible sharing
• Hierarchical namespaces for enterprise-level situations

Hardware Requirements

• 1 vCPU
• 2048 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 and modify it if you need to.
• 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.
• 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 v10.

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
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

GPL-V3.0