Sending newsletters to 1000’s of users, tracking clicks, unsubscribe links, risk of sending e-mails twice? Yes, these are some concerns of newsletter management.

phplist, an open source PHP - MySQL based newsletter management application makes sending newsletters easy, professional and managable.

Some powerful features of phplist:

• No duplicate messages. No ‘forgotten’ messages.
• View and click tracking
• Templating and multiple subscribe pages
• Dynamic subscriber columns
• User specific content like "name, e-mail"
• Lists
• RSS subscription
• Scheduling
• CVS import and export
• Bounce detection and cleaning
• Auto PDF messages
• Attachments
• Throttling to prevent server overload

This open source newsletter manager can also be integrated with the current subscriber base with the built-in import feature or some coding for syncronazing databases.

With the increasing number of online web services, if you want to create an online zip and e-mail servive, Online Zip offers it for free.

Online Zip is a php script which allows users add files to a zip archive and send the archive to an e-mail address.

Probably, most of us upload photos to flickr via e-mail or once used Craigslist & auto-generated temporary e-mails of it for the listings.

If you want to build a similar e-mail to http process, there is a web service named Email2HTTP, which turns incoming email into easy-to-handle HTTP POST requests.

How does it work?

Email2HTTP works by acting as the mail server for your domain. When email arrives that matches one of your filters, it is posted to your chosen URL as if it were coming from a form on a web page. The attachments are sent as if they are file uploads on that form.

Who is it for?

Email2HTTP is for web developers who need to accept email in their web applications, but do not want to maintain their own mail servers & software.

P.S. Email2HTTP is now in the beta phase & totally free. In the future, besides the paid plans, a free plan will also be provided.

Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so, Campaign Monitor done the hard work for you with these 30 free e-mail templates.

They’ve tested them in all the major email clients, so add your own content and you’re all set.