Listmonk: send a newsletter without Mailchimp.

For newsletters and mailing lists it can: subscriber lists, templates, campaigns, sign-up forms with confirmation and statistics. What Mailchimp does on top, such as automatic sequences or ads, Listmonk does not do. If you need that, you look at Mautic. We tell you honestly beforehand which of the two suits how you work.

It does one thing: managing lists and sending mail. That makes it a light program that asks little of the server and handles big lists quickly. You are not paying for features you never use. If you later want more, such as campaigns based on behaviour, that goes through a different program.

They can, and we recommend it. A new subscriber gets a mail with a confirmation link and joins the list only after clicking it. That stops someone else from signing up your address, and it gives you a list of people who really want the newsletter. Unsubscribing is part of it too.

A newsletter sent in your name is judged by the receiving server on its sender. If SPF, DKIM and DMARC are not in order, it ends up with the junk mail or reaches nobody. On your own server that is our job, and it happens before the first issue.

On an instance of its own, on Jevana hardware in the Netherlands. The list of addresses is not with an American mail provider. You can always export it, also if you want to leave. It also makes a request for access or deletion easier to handle, because there is one place to look.