Can anyone recommend a good gem or library for managing a mailing list with Ruby? No Rails solutions, if possible, please (I don’t want to have ActionWhatever dependencies, this will most likely be done with Ramaze).
I just need basic features, like management of the list itself (CRUD operations on the user list), plus being able to send notifications, welcome messages, and also auto respond to basic things like subscribe and unsubscribe.
Optimally, people should be able to subscribe via both a Ramaze web page (i.e. I’d have Ramaze call/access the lib’s API), as well as by sending an email to a specific email address. But I am willing to forego the operations by email.
I’m willing to entertain non-Ruby, or non-programmatic solutions, if they are good, but the ability to subscribe from a web page [under my control] is a must.
EDIT: Sorry, one important detail I forgot to add: This is intended to be a one-way mailing list. That is, people should be able to subscribe and unsubscribe alright, but only one person should be allowed to send to the list for broadcasting.
I ended up going with Google Groups. (If silky would care to add an official answer to this effect, I would gladly mark it as the official accepted answer.)
Google Groups lets you alter settings so that you can have a “newsletter” like I wanted (i.e. single sender, multiple recipients). It also has an embeddable HTML snippet ready to go for quick subscription from a web page under your control.