E-Mail Newsletter Best Practices and Resources
Learn the best practices in newsletter designs, use of images, subject lines, personalization. Also include topics such as statistics, HTML coding, etc.
Premailer
Premailer does the nasty work of converting good HTML to the awful dialect used by common e-mail clients.
Best Practices in Writing Email Subject Lines
Comparisons of good and bad subject lines — from Mailchimp.
Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off
Another excellent Nielsen article, this on on the Subscribe/Unsubscribe Process and the importance of presonalization in newsletters.
Email Client Statistics
Take this with a healthy dose of skepticism. I suspect that webmail clients are far more prominent, but there are no good statistics.