Personalized Email List And Subscribing

[dombrorj]

To anyone familiar with the mailing list feature. Is it possible to set up the mailing list so when I post a message it will be personalized to the reciever. For example, I would like the body of the text to say:

 

Dear $name,

 

Where '$name' is the reciever's name that they subscribed with.

 

Which leads to my next question. Is it possible to subscribe via e-mail, and how can I get their name.

 

I have a form on my website for the person to register for my newsletter by giving their name and email. I want the form to be sent to the list registration. If this isn't possible here, do you know of a free mailing list platform that will allow me to do this? Thanks.