Dan Collis-Puro

This plugin allows users of subscriber- or greater access to subscribe to categories of posts on your wordpress blog. It is probably most appropriate for small to medium sites.
Users can:
<ul>
<li>Choose whether they prefer HTML or text-only email,</li>
<li>Control on a category-by-category basis whether or not they get messages immediately or in a daily or weekly digest.</li>
<li>Control which categories they subscribe to.</li>
</ul>
Site administrators can:
<ul>
<li>Modify reply-to, from, and BCC addresses.</li>
<li>Modify user subscriptions on a users profile page.</li>
<li>Set basic parameters for delivery – how many messages to send at once to avoid usage complaints on shared hosting, for instance.</li>
<li>Bulk edit category subscriptions from the users list.</li>
<li>Exercise complete control over text and HTML templates.</li>
</ul>
Other notes:
<ul>
<li>Scheduled posts are only sent out after the wordpress backend actually publishes them. Put more simply, they work as expected. Be sure wp-cron is running correctly.</li>
<li>Admins can set a “send delay” parameter to allow last-minute edits before sending out a message.</li>
<li>If a message is unpublished after being published, message sending will be aborted. Messages sent already are – well – sent already. We can’t travel back in time (though that’d be a great 2.0 feature). This ensures that old posts needing minor edits don’t get sent out again as updates.</li>
<li>Only messages published after the date of installation are sent out.</li>
<li>Category hierarchy has no effect on subscriptions. If you subscribe to a parent category, you ARE NOT automatically subscribed to its children. This may be integrated into future releases. We may also allow for the subscription to tags or custom taxonomies in future releases.</li>
<li>Bounces ARE NOT handled by this plugin. You can, however, set the “reply-to” and “from” addresses to allow you to collect them in a logical place.</li>
</ul>
Speaking of cron, if you have a low-traffic site (say, for an intranet), you may find that your messages aren’t delivered in the time frame you’re expecting. This is because wordpress scheduled tasks are fired off by visitors to your website – so if you don’t get a lot of traffic, your scheduled tasks won’t run frequently. You can manually create a cron job to hit your wp-cron.php file, something like:
*/15 * * * * wget -q –post-data=”foo” http://www.example.com/yoursite -O – > /dev/null
Remove the “-q” switch above when you test this manually to ensure the request returns a “200 OK” response.
TODO:
<ul>
<li>More template tags.</li>
<li>Better bulk editing features.</li>
<li>Queue management / statistics.</li>
<li>A better template editing interface.</li>
<li>Better debugging – e.g. the ability to send example messages.</li>
<li>More flexible task scheduling.</li>
</ul>
<h3>More Documentation</h3>
See the “Category Subscriptions” options page under your Settings menu. Template tag documentation lives there.
<h3>Other</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the same terms as WordPress itself.
Copyright 2011, The President and Fellows of Harvard College

Category Subscriptions

Allow registered users to subscribe to categories giving them control over delivery times (e.g. daily or weekly digests) and format (html or text).

3D Virge

With this plugin you can switch the different WordPress notification e-mails on and off, like options as the new user and password change notifications send by WordPress to the administrator and user. Works perfectly in combination with a lot of other plugins!
Watch this nice tut made by Robert Orzanna: 
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/66UkQKgSFio?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
The options you can manage are:
<ol>
<li>New user notification to admin</li>
<li>New user notification to user</li>
<li>Notify post author</li>
<li>Notify moderator</li>
<li>Password change notification to admin</li>
<li>Password change notification to user</li>
<li>E-mail address change notification to user</li>
<li>Forgotten password e-mail to user</li>
<li>Forgotten password e-mail to administrator</li>
<li>Automatic WordPress core update e-mail</li>
<li>Automatic WordPress plugin update e-mail</li>
<li>Automatic WordPress theme update e-mail</li>
<li>Send admin notifications to extra admin e-mail addresses (1.7.0)</li>
<li>Send an e-mail to administrators after a user requested to update his or her e-mail address (1.7.0)</li>
<li>Send an e-mail to administrators after a user successfully updated his or her e-mail address (1.7.0)</li>
<li>Multi-site support! Now you can manage your notification settings in one single environment (1.8.0)</li>
<li>Export and import settings (1.8.0)</li>
</ol>
The automatic core, plugin, and theme updates have a special built-in feature. When one of these options is disabled, successful e-mails don’t get send out, but failed updates still will send an e-mail to the admin.
This version contains some nice new stuff. If you find any issues, let me know. If you like the new features, please be so kind to give this plugin a good rating! It will help me to keep up the good work for you 🙂
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Manage Notification E-mails

Enable and disable email notifications that WordPress sends to the admin and user. Works perfectly with many other plugins!

Category Subscriptions vs Manage Notification E-mails