Lately I have been thinking that I should have added some plugin or another to let people have new posts emailed to the years ago. Well, the second best time is always "right now".
There's multiple plugins that claim to do this, some via your site's email server, some via third-party bulk mail services. Which ones do you like best? Which ones are a complete pain in the ass that you would only recommend to your worst enemy?
Ideally I should have to do nothing else once I get it set up and people subscribe, emails should just go out when I hit that "new post" button, or maybe go out after some configurable delay to give me time to catch typos and fix them.
Also, my site makes extensive use of WordPress' multisite capabilities, so if some mail plugin is great on a single site, but terrible on multisite, I'd love to know. 🙂
My site is also self-hosted if that makes any difference in your recommendations.