Background:

There are many great email newsletter sending systems out there. Unfortunately, none of them met my needs. I wanted free. I wanted the newsletters built in text and html. I also wanted them built automatically through a blog post. I also didn't want to have to worry about having to run my own email list server. Did I mention it really needed to be free?

Well, after a lot of late nights searching Al Gore's great idea for a free system that met my unrealistic requirements, I realized that a little script that our