Have you ever received a newsletter, subscription email from a company, and at the bottom of the page there is a link to phpList…?

Then it’s most probably a sign that you’ve been mailed by phpList, the most awesome free mass mailing tool on the internet today.

What is phpList.

phpList is a web-based email list manager and mass-mail sender .(my definition) .

PHPlist is a double opt-in newsletter manager. It is written in PHP and uses an SQL database for storing the information. PHPlist is software that runs on a server.

PHPlist is designed to assist you to stay in touch with your audience, without flooding them with information they don’t want. PHPlist is an essential tool for anyone who is serious about creating, capturing and maintaining an offline audience, and will help you increase traffic to your website.

And the most amazing thing of all: IT’S FREE.

Recently, with my activities at IntoShape, we were looking for a tool to help us manage our mailing list in one central place and where we can send smart HTML mails or just plain text.

We then found phpList, which met our requirements, and best of all, centralized on our web server, no need to dump the database and load it into a third party app here at the office.

Cool feature
One of the coolest feature of this tool is, the “send a webpage” feature, whereby you just say to phpList, go fetch this webpage(let’s say blog.justpulse.com) and it goes fetches, creates the links to URLs and images and sends the whole webpage to the recipients.

I can recommend anyone running a website or mailing list to check out this FREE project.

written by Arné

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