Newsletter-generation program?

[Valour]

I'm looking for a program that will generate, manage, and email a newsletter to people who sign up for it. I haven't decided exactly what the newsletter will contain, but likely it'll be excerpts from articles and reviews, and maybe some general commentary just to keep it unique and original. I suppose I could do this by hand with a standard email program and a huge list of addresses, but clearly that is not the best way to do the job.

So I have searched Portage for "newsletter" and "list" and some other things and haven't come up with any programs so far that even come close to what I want to do. I found these on SourceForge, and looked for some of them in Portage but didn't find them listed.

Does anyone know of a newsletter program in Portage? If so, what is it? If there is nothing in Portage for this, does anyone have any recommendations?
_________________
This sig is entirely too silly.

[quag7]

The way this is usually managed is via a mail server running, say, majordomo or some kind of list manager - you set up the addresses as subscribers on the mail server, then send your mail to majordomo (or whatever you're using) which then remails it out to everyone.

These lists may be one way or two way, allowing replies to the list, or simply act as a one-way distribution list (it sounds like this latter option is what you're looking for).

In my case, my web hosting package that I pay for provides this capability.

You could set up majordomo on your home mail server if you have one. Postfix or exim are easy to set up if you don't have a mail server already running.

You could also set this up in your /etc/aliases file if your subscriber list isn't too big. I have one at work

staffgroup useraccount1,useraccount2,useraccount3

Or I may be understanding exactly what you need or what you're looking to automate. You can generally create mailing lists in most mail clients, where you address your outgoing mail to a single address, which is then expanded when you send, to the whole subscriber list. In Evolution, for example, this is done via New->Contact List.
_________________
http://www.dataswamp.net

[Valour]

What I'm looking for is something automated that I set up once, enter my newsletter content into, click a button, and never have to worry about. If people want to subscribe or unsubscribe, I should never need to know about it. I have seen programs like this for GNU/Linux -- most of them Java- or PHP-based -- but I didn't find any in Portage. It makes my server so much easier to manage when I don't install things outside of Portage, so I figured I'd ask.
_________________
This sig is entirely too silly.