So you’re setting up a Satchmo store, but you don’t like how the default store pages look. Possibly you just want to override the layout of the product detail page, how do you do that without having to edit the Satchmo files themselves?

Satchmo includes built-in support for GNU Mailman mailing lists. This is because it is free, fairly easy to set up, and comes with many VPS systems.

It isn’t too bad an option, after all. You can easily set options so that it is “push only” and therefore only the mailing list owner can send mail.

But actually sending that mail can be tricky. Especially if you want to mail from a special email address, and you don’t want to expose your personal email to everyone.

If you want to send nicely formatted HMTL newsletters, how do you get your mail client to send those so that they’ll look nice for your customers? Answer, you don’t. You send it manually from the commandline.