Sometimes wordpress email capabilities is just not enough for your needs, this is the exact scenario where you need a good plugin to resolve your problem. here are some excellent Email plugins for wordpress:

WP Better Emails

Adds a customizable good looking HTML template to all WP default plain/text emails and lets you set a custom sender name and email address.

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News Mailer

Simple plugin for mailing news or updates to members registered on the blog.

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Subscribe2

Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog

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MailPress

Style your html and plain text mails with dedicated themes and templates.

Double opt-in subscription.

Subscriptions to Comments, Newsletters/Post notifications and even to Mailing lists.

Newsletters/Post notifications on a per post, daily, weekly, monthly basis.

Optional : full control on all mails sent by WordPress.

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HTML Emails

Converts the default plain text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin’ HTML emails.

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Newsletter

Newsletter is a plug-in to collect subscribers and send out newsletters.

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One of the main requests you get as a developer from clients is to have a mailing list options on their website.

there are many options to create a mailing list.

you can let subscribers sign for a mail every time a post is published Subscribe2 does, provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

you can also use a local program that runs on your client’s computer, let’s say you download something like 1st mass mailer, than you can let the client to import the new subscribers into a mailing list. (it’s the less comfortable way to do it).

and you can use the online tools for mailing list, most of them are very good, but they cost money. we really like mailchimp.

of course there are many great free and premium wordpress plugins for newsletter and mailing list, here are some of them:

Automatic Newsletter

This plugin will send a newsletter to everyone on your email list. You can specify how many recent posts it will send in the newsletter options under settings.

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Simple Newsletter Plugin

This plugin is a simple newsletter plugin. It can show opt-in form, save opt-in email and name, and send emails to your opt-in list. It also have import and export email data ability.

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Newsletter

This plug-in lets you collect subscribers on your blog with a single or double opt-in subscription process. Double opt-in means the user has to confirm a subscription following simple standard instructions sent to him via email.

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there is also a PRO version of this plugin, her:

http://www.satollo.net/plugins/newsletter-pro

MailChimp WordPress Plugin

The MailChimp WordPress plugin allows you to quickly and easily add your MailChimp signup form as a widget on your WordPress 2.3 or higher blog. See it in action on our own MailChimp Blog.

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*** try them all and find the one you like.

ENJOY

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