I see. In either case, you’ll need to do some custom coding. I would prefer to custom code a mail feature than messing with the database if at all possible, so I would still use Jot/Notes, and add a "Mail" button to the form page under the form that uses AJAX to email the Jot listing display page to a list. Easy enough to just rip off the mailing code from eForm. Better than an attachment, actually, especially as it’s not the safest thing in the world to be opening .doc attachments in email no matter who you think it’s coming from.
The whole huge advantage to using Jot for managing items that don’t really belong in resources is the moderation feature, where the user can delete, unpublish, publish or edit the entries. Its form and output templates work like Wayfinder or Ditto, so you can make them look like anything you want. It has phx built-in so the tpls can have conditionals without installing the phx plugin. Jot’s custom fields would come in handy here as well. I frequently use it for items that need to be easily and quickly edited or added to and that I want displayed in a specific format for Javascript sliders or accordions, such as client quotes or employee bios.
Depending on how big this mailing list will be, I would consider setting up the DADA mailer and using that to mail off the page to the list. It’s a perl script, and a very powerful mailing application. You can trigger its functions via PHP’s perl extensions (
http://devzone.zend.com/article/1712 ). I have embedded it as a module very easily.
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