The Views Send module allows you to compose and send emails directly from a views listing. The module makes it really easy to create a views listing page where an editor can select a few rows and send out mass emails.

For example, if you're using Drupal Commerce to sell a particular product you could use Views Send to update your customers on the progress of their order. Just make sure you don't spam the customer with a lot of emails.

A lot of what Views Send does, can be achieved using other modules like Simplenews, Rules and possibly Views Bulk Operations (VBO). However, Views Send is easier to use and the module is fairly lightweight.

In this tutorial, we'll create a page that lists Drupal users and use Views Send to send out emails.