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You got me wrong.
The automated plugin allows you to send newsletters on some selected days and at a given time. You configure it once and then the plugin simply works by itself.
The automated plugin is basically a cron job. What it can’t do is send a newsletter as soon as a new blog post is published or send single newsletters for each new blog post, even though you can configure it to include just the newest blog post resulting at the moment the newsletter is sent (which makes little sense IMHO).
If you need to send out immediately, there is a “run now” button which immediately creates and sends the newsletter. Of course at the scheduled time, if there is not new content, nothing is sent.
The point is you must hit the “Run now” (rectius: “Generate and send now”) button manually, you can’t “automate” it. That’s a pretty serious limitation.
The automated plugin keeps track of posts. If there’s no new content, the newsletter is not sent (unless you explicitly force the plugin to generate it regardless).
That being said, we have a similar problem: sometimes (quite often, actually) we publish some important posts that our subscribers should be notified about promptly. They can’t wait the end of the working day to receive the daily newsletter. The newsletter plugin does not provide any feature that could allow that. Other plugins do, but they do not “talk” with the Newsletter plugin, specifically its channel/list of subscribers.
So I am stuck.
