Lew Ayotte

The Pigeon Pack plugin is completely free! This plugin aims to solve one problem, putting the power of email marketing, newsletters, and campaigns in the hands of YOU. Now you do not need to pay for a third party like MailChimp or Constant Contact to reach out to your customers. You have full control and power over your own lists and you can bring them anywhere at any time. The Pigeon Pack plugin is GPL and free to use on any WordPress website.
Features of this plugin include:
<ul>
<li>Single Email Campaigns</li>
<li>WordPress Post Campaigns (single or digest)</li>
<li>Email a specific role or create a list</li>
<li>Easy to use shortcodes and widgets for users to sign up for your emails from your website</li>
<li>Create custom fields for your lists</li>
<li>Double Opt-in available for lists</li>
<li>Easily extendable with filters and action hooks</li>
</ul>
You can follow the development of this plugin at <a href="https://github.com/PigeonPack/PigeonPack" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>!
Premium Pigeon Pack Add-ons (COMING SOON):
<ul>
<li>Analytics – Learn more about what your subscribers are doing!</li>
<li>Autoresponders (Events) – Send a series of messages to new subscribers.</li>
<li>RSS Campaigns – Import the RSS feed from another site to send to your subscribers.</li>
<li>Import Scripts – Import subscribers from other lists using CSV, MailChimp, Salesforce, Highrise, Constant Contact and more!</li>
<li>Bounce Detector – Use the power of the Pigeon Pack servers to detect when a subscriber’s email is bounced to help reduce the chances of your server being flagged as SPAM.</li>
<li>Responsive Email Template – No more plain-jane emails!</li>
<li>Notifications – Receive notifications whenever someone subscribers or unsubscribers from your list.</li>
<li>Amazon SES – Built-in functionality to work directly with the Amazon Simple Email Server service.</li>
</ul>
Please visit the Pigeon Pack website for access to <a href="http://pigeonpack.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">support and premium membership add-ons</a>!
<h3>License</h3>
Pigeon Pack 
Copyright (C) 2013 leenk.me, LLC.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.

Pigeon Pack

Free and easy email marketing, newsletters, and campaigns; built into your WordPress dashboard!

Andy Charrington

*** THIS IS A BETA RELEASE ***
ChimpPress provides an interface for creating and managing your MailChimp campaigns without having to leave your WordPress dashboard.
It also allows you to utilise MailChimps campaign sending and management tools to send automatic mailouts when ever a post/page/CPT is published.
Current features of ChimpPress
<ul>
<li>Create bespoke HTML emails using the intuitive drag and drop editor.</li>
<li>Add padding and colours to specific cells in your email or to the entire campaign.</li>
<li>Select from a number of layout templates and then add multiple rows and columns as needed.</li>
<li>Import/Export as well as quick import of existing campaigns.</li>
<li>Resize images within the editor by dragging them to the desired size.</li>
<li>Receive in-depth stats about your campaign.</li>
<li>Set up a campaign as a “Template” and specify when it should be used to send out notifications when a post/page/CPT is published.</li>
<li>Manage your subscribers.</li>
</ul>
All you need is a MailChimp account and an API key and you can start creating bespoke html emails!

ChimpPress

ChimpPress is a new way to manage your MailChimp campaigns right from your WordPress Dashboard.

Pigeon Pack vs ChimpPress