Epapyr Software

The Idea: Allow visitors to register their email address on the site without needing to generate (yet another!) password. The blog author can create a post of Type "Newsletter" which would get mailed out to all the registered users and/or posted to the blog as a regular entry depending upon the configuration options. This plugin would need a way to generate a confirmation email to verify the user did request to be added, a way for users to easily remove their email (probably also sending a confirmation email) and a new table in the database to store email addresses.

b2evolution provides the register.php file, which could probably be tweaked to provide this functionality: remove the login and password-fields and change up which database entries get updated, and you'd be good to go on the frontend. The back end would need a little work...

This is not a unique idea to me, there have been many requests on the forums for a newsletter-type plugin, however, they do have a focus on mailing registered users, whereas I don't want to make registration (creating a login/password) on my blog a requirement. This is just a sampling:
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=16393&highlight=newsletter (2008-08)
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=11987&highlight=newsletter (2007-07)
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=9443&highlight=newsletter (2006-10)
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=16454 (2008-08 - mailsender plugin download)

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