How to send email to "anonymous" user when a new node is created

Question

I've been looking at a couple of modules and none of them seem to work the way I want to.

I'd like to display a textfield for an anonymous user to enter his email. Everytime a node of a certain type (blog post) is created, an email would be sent to every person who gave their email.

How could I achieve that in Drupal 7 ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Simplenews looks like it would work perfectly for this.

Simplenews publishes and sends newsletters to lists of subscribers. Both anonymous and authenticated users can opt-in to different mailing lists. HTML email can be sent by adding Mime Mail module.

Answer 2

You can write your own custom module. If you are showing form as a block, you can use hook_block_info() or hook_block_configure() hooks

Then use YOURMOUDLE_form api to create form and implement the submit handler for the form i.e YOURMODULE_form_submit() where you write insert queries

Now to send the email you can use hook_node_insert() hook to do your things after the node is inserted in the tables

Answer 3

Use rules module with the following information. Create a field for that content type called email.

Events After saving new content

Conditions Content is of type "select your content type"

Actions Send mail - and in the to section use your field token like [node:field-email] with an appropriate subject and message.