Listmonk is a popular and powerful email marketing software that allows you to send newsletters, promotional emails, and transactional emails to your subscribers.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Listmonk on FreeBSD Latest and get started with email marketing.
Before you start with the installation process, make sure your system meets the following requirements:
First, we need to update the FreeBSD system to the latest version. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo freebsd-update fetch install
This will download and install the latest updates for your system.
Listmonk is written in Go programming language, so we need to install Go on our system.
Run the following command to install Go on your FreeBSD system:
sudo pkg install go
After installing Go, you need to configure the GOPATH environment variable:
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
To make this change permanent, add the above line to your shell profile file, such as .bashrc or .zshrc.
Now, we can proceed with the installation of Listmonk. You can get the latest version of Listmonk from its official website or GitHub repository.
We will use GitHub repository to install Listmonk on FreeBSD.
Run the following command to download and install Listmonk:
go get github.com/knadh/listmonk
Wait for the installation to complete.
By default, Listmonk listens on port 8080. If you want to change the default port, you can set it using the PORT environment variable.
For example, to run Listmonk on port 80, you can run the following command:
PORT=80 listmonk serve
Now that we have Listmonk installed, we need to configure it to use our SMTP server to send emails.
Create a configuration file called config.yml in the Listmonk directory:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/knadh/listmonk
touch config.yml
Open the config.yml file with your favorite text editor and add the following configuration:
site:
domain: your_domain.com
smtp:
host: your_smtp_host
port: your_smtp_port
username: your_smtp_username
password: your_smtp_password
Replace your_domain.com, your_smtp_host, your_smtp_port, your_smtp_username, and your_smtp_password with your own domain name and SMTP server details.
Save and close the file.
Now, your Listmonk installation is ready to run. You can start Listmonk using the following command:
listmonk serve
Once Listmonk is running, you can access the web interface by visiting http://your_domain.com:8080 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Listmonk on FreeBSD Latest and how to configure it to use your SMTP server. Now, you can start creating email campaigns and sending newsletters to your subscribers.
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