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Re: Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp

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Post by brittohalloran »

cmorrisrsg wrote: post #2

Hey - I'm Chad, the project lead for Mandrill. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have.

So how does this compare to something like SendGrid? More or less a direct competitor? I noticed you can only send mail via the API (no SMTP relay). Any other notable differences?

Re: Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp

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Post by suking »

brittohalloran wrote: post #3
cmorrisrsg wrote: post #2

Hey - I'm Chad, the project lead for Mandrill. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have.

So how does this compare to something like SendGrid? More or less a direct competitor? I noticed you can only send mail via the API (no SMTP relay). Any other notable differences?

Why would you use Sendgrid over Amazon SES - SES is like 1/10th the price.

Re: Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp

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Post by brittohalloran »

brittohalloran wrote: post #3
cmorrisrsg wrote: post #2

Hey - I'm Chad, the project lead for Mandrill. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have.

So how does this compare to something like SendGrid? More or less a direct competitor? I noticed you can only send mail via the API (no SMTP relay). Any other notable differences?

Cancel that -- you CAN do a simple SMTP relay. Looks like a solid service. I'll consider switching. Your free plan is about twice what SendGrid offers.

Re: Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp

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megaman821 wrote: post #6
cmorrisrsg wrote: post #2

Hey - I'm Chad, the project lead for Mandrill. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have.

For auditing purposes I need to record individual email bounces. Do you have an api or reporting feature that does that?

Seems you can set up webhooks to do just that! [1]

These are the events: send, hard_bounce, soft_bounce, open, click, spam, unsub, reject

[1] http://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/webhooks.html#method=add

Re: Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp

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Post by megaman821 »

bittersweet wrote: post #7
megaman821 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For auditing purposes I need to record individual email bounces. Do you have an api or reporting feature that does that?

Seems you can set up webhooks to do just that! [1] These are the events: send, hard_bounce, soft_bounce, open, click, spam, unsub, reject [1] http://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/webhooks.html#method=add

The API doc does not make it clear if I am getting the recipient, subject line, and bounce type back.
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