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After looking for something for a while the best I could find – by a good margin – is Sendit.

“Sendit enable you to send newsletters and collect subscribers from your blog. You can manage one or more list and using in post/pages or using the widget(customizable). You can extract content from post or pages or create your content to send to subscribers. You can also edit the template for each mailing lists just put some XHTML code on header and footer. Newsletter will be send in XHTML format.”

Works like a charm.

A tip: by default only admin can see the Newsletter option.

To fix it so that lesser mortals can see amd use the Newsletter system edit:

add_menu_page(__(‘Send’, ’sendit’), __(‘Newsletter’, ’sendit’), 8, __FILE__, ‘invianewsletter’);

(and subsequent lines for sub-menu options)

8 means admin: change this to, say, 5 for Editors.

Full numbers explanation here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#User_Level_to_Role_Conversion

Another tip: the confirmation page (confirmation.php) didn’t work great with my theme – I had to edit after line 40 to make sure there were the right amount of div tags (div="content" is both a typo and redundant).