Q&A: why is it so hard to find a simple, functional wordpress newsletter widget plug-in?

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Hi, I have a wordpress website. I want my visitors to sign up for a newsletter email list. I want to have a widget in the right sidebar(my theme supports widgets fine) that has a field for name and a field for email. when they submit it gets stored.

I doesn't seem like much to ask but when I search for one, a lot of them are very very old and not updated.

Does anybody know of a plugin that

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