listmonk
listmonk.app · Email marketing
Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager.
57 items · 64 source threads · 2 source types · updated 2026-05
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Pain points 28
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| No visibility into why SMTP connection does nothing after connecting A new user sees an SMTP connection attempt on their mail server but nothing afterwards and cannot tell how to debug it from listmonk's side. Affects: New listmonk user |
Setup & onboarding | Blocks work | 4 sources | 2023-06 |
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| Campaign marked finished after only 37 of a large list were sent A user with a 200,000-subscriber list saw a campaign flagged finished almost immediately, which they trace to batches containing only blocklisted subscribers. Affects: Sender with a large list containing blocklisted subscribers |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 3 sources | 2024-07 |
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| Test campaign delivers to one subscriber and errors with nested MAIL command Sending a test campaign produced repeated SMTP errors where only the first subscriber received the message and the rest failed. |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 3 sources | 2023-12 |
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| SMTP connection pool errors with SES on Lambda when sending campaigns A user on AWS Lambda with SES gets deadline and i/o timeout errors when sending campaigns or campaign tests, although the SMTP settings page test works. Affects: User deploying on AWS Lambda with SES |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2023-08 |
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| POP3 bounce mailbox scanning fails with an unknown response error A user setting up a POP3 account for bounce handling gets an error scanning the mailbox with an unknown response that is neither -ERR nor +OK. |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2022-01 |
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| Docker image fails on ARM64 with exec format error Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-10 |
| Attachment disappears from scheduled campaigns before they are sent Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-03 |
| Re-sending only to failed recipients requires manual log extraction Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-03 |
| Transactional template with MJML columns renders corrupt in Windows Outlook Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-12 |
| Frequent Axios errors when loading campaigns and subscribers pages Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Performance | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-11 |
| Media upload fails in Docker with a file open error Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-09 |
| Custom Return-Path header is ignored so bounces go to the wrong mailbox Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-08 |
| SES bounces are not automatically blocklisting subscribers Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-12 |
| Docker setup on Mac produced an empty database and port conflicts Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-06 |
| Saving or sending a new campaign fails with an ON CONFLICT database error Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-11 |
| Upgrade command from v0.7.0 to v0.8.0 never completes Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-11 |
| Container fails with relation lists does not exist on a manual setup Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Setup & onboarding | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Stuck configuring config.toml without a step-by-step install guide Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Documentation | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-05 |
| Self-hosted tools add update, monitoring and backup workload Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Annoyance | 1 source | 2026-05 |
| No multitenancy forces one listmonk instance per domain Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Annoyance | 1 source | 2025-07 |
| Sorting the Lists page by Subscribers throws a database error Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-06 |
| Campaign analytics lost a percentage shown in earlier versions Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-02 |
| Cloning a campaign a second time fails on a duplicate archive slug Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-02 |
| AWS SES bounce processing docs are outdated and incomplete Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Documentation | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-01 |
| Listmonk still needs an external mail backend such as SES for deliverability Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Setup & onboarding | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-08 |
| Back button after subscribing does not return to the website's form Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-03 |
| Double opt-in confirmation needs a second click and a confusing back button Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Unclear how to process soft and hard bounces and complaints in production Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Documentation | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-07 |
Feature requests 27
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Honeypot spam protection for public subscription forms Spam bots submit invalid addresses to a subscription form, producing many bounce messages, so the user asks for a honeypot field that needs no CAPTCHA. Affects: Site owner with a public subscribe form |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2025-01 |
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| No way to find or retry subscribers who failed during a campaign send When transient errors cause some sends to fail the campaign is still marked finished and the user cannot tell who missed it, so they ask for a retry-failed function. Affects: Admins sending critical campaigns |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 1 source | 2025-08 |
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| See which subscribers a campaign was actually sent to Campaigns only show a sent count, so the user cannot tell who received the email and asks for a messages view with per-recipient details. |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-11 |
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| Auto-create users on first OIDC SSO login with a default role A user with a large, changing SSO user base finds it inconvenient to create each user again in listmonk and asks for automatic creation with a default role. Affects: Admin with a large SSO user base |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-10 |
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| Support CID inline images so they display in Outlook A user says externally referenced images fail to show in some clients, including Outlook, and wants CID inline image support to be added. |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-10 |
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| Incremental campaign resend to only new subscribers Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-11 |
| European operators need opt-in consent records with IP address and timestamp Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-07 |
| Endpoint to record abuse and spam complaint webhooks Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-10 |
| List type that subscribers cannot opt out of for mandatory notices Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-01 |
| Outbound webhooks when subscribers are changed or deleted Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-01 |
| Drag-and-drop email template builder for non-technical users Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Send a campaign to a SQL-defined segment of a list Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-01 |
| Send emails with PDF attachments Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-12 |
| Run listmonk under a sub-path instead of its own hostname Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-08 |
| Translate system emails such as the subscription confirmation subject Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-07 |
| Forwarded newsletters let others unsubscribe the original recipient Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Annoyance | 1 source | 2025-07 |
| Choose a different SMTP server for each campaign Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-01 |
| Edit preheader text from campaign settings Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-03 |
| Predictable release timeframe or roadmap wanted Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Documentation | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-06 |
| Public archive pages for previous campaigns Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-03 |
| Expose Prometheus-style metrics for external alerting Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-12 |
| Provide ARM64 Docker images and binaries Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Include subscriber name in the To header of sent emails Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Serve uploaded media through CloudFront or another CDN URL Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Packagers need a way to disable update checks and set build metadata Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-06 |
| Support SQLite so small VPS installs need no Postgres Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-05 |
| Send an automatic email when someone subscribes to a list Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-10 |
Workarounds 1
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Managed hosting of listmonk for people who avoid self-hosting A commenter points to a managed pod host that runs listmonk cheaply as an option for people who do not want to self-host it. |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Annoyance | 1 source | 2025-11 |
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Switching reasons 1
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Tried listmonk as a FOSS Mailchimp alternative but it lacked needed features A user searching for an open-source Mailchimp alternative tried listmonk and another tool, found both missing features they need, and is considering building their own. |
Other | Causes churn | 1 source | 2023-07 |
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