Do you have mailman (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/) installed on your host? Most hosts have it.. You can let your users sign up for the mailing list. And you would email the list email address which is sent to all your members. You can customize your subscribe list too. 🙂
Thanks! Do you happen to know if it’s easy to integrate it into WP?
And how do I find out if my host has it installed?
In your control panel, see if there’s anything about “mail” or “mailing lists.” Then create a list. As far as integrating it when WordPress, if you really want to, you can create a new page, and copy and past the form information in it. Basically, it’s just a form with an input box and a submit button. Or, you can edit the template in mailman to make it look like the rest of your website. 🙂
Macmanx: I only want to send notifications about selective posts. Is there an option for this in the two plug-ins you mentioned?
phpprincess: Somehow Mailman’s email does not work with Gmail. It doesn’t even get to the spam filter!
fuzzy – this may be a bit strong for your needs, not sure. But you should take a look at PHPlist (http://tincan.co.uk/phplist?cc=1). It’s a little lean on the documentation side, but I plan on using it when I get my site (not blog) up and running. It covers all the bases: subscribe, unsubscribe, confirmation, mailing lists, etc.
Ok so I ended up using a very primitive solution. I installed Dodosmail.php on my server and configured it to send email to one of my Gmail account. When people sign up for the mailing list, they’re just sending an email to my Gmail account. Since all I need is a notify list, this is good enough.
