phpList 3 Newsletter Manager on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

phpList is the open source newsletter and email campaign manager used by charities, publishers, businesses and community groups worldwide to manage subscriber lists and send bulk email. It provides subscriber list management, subscribe, confirm and unsubscribe pages, an HTML and plain text campaign editor, attribute based segmentation, and open, click and bounce tracking, all from one web console. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, with phpList 3 served by Apache and PHP 8.3 and a bundled local MySQL server, so the appliance is complete and useful on its own.

The phpList database is already initialised and the administrator account is created at build time, so no browser install wizard is ever exposed. A unique administrator password is generated on the first boot of every VM and written to a root only file, and the shipped image carries the administrator password rotated to a discarded random value, so no known or blank credential authenticates. Browse to the admin console on port 80 at /lists/admin/, sign in as the admin user, and start managing subscriber lists, composing campaigns, and running subscribe pages.

The bundled MySQL listens only on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1:3306) and is never exposed to the network; its root account is authenticated by the local socket, so there is no database password to leak. To deliver email, point phpList at your own SMTP relay (for example Azure Communication Services, SendGrid, Amazon SES, or your own mail server) in the configuration file, as described in the deployment guide. For production, front port 80 with your own domain and TLS.

phpList is free and open source software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. This image is an independent packaging of the open source phpList software by cloudimg and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by phpList Ltd. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.