Fuck mandrill here's how you move to Amazon SES and pay 1/8 of the price

Mandrill/Mailchimp are fuckwits.

They just raised their pricing by 8x and they didn't give their users any notice. All the said was oh we're merging mailchimp and mandrill accounts in an email, not telling users that their also going to get fucked over because the price is now 8x higher.

I prepurchased several thousand dollars with mandrill in credits at the previous price, and they won't provide me with the service at the previous price even for my prepaid credits. wtf?

let's all move to amazon SES, most startups have free AWS credits, else it $0.10c per thousand, an eight of the price of mandrill,

here's how you multithread to send bulk campaigns on Amazon SES:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16834279/amazon-ses-php-sdk-2-how-to-achieve-high-send-rate

You might like this tweet, https://twitter.com/shawnroos/status/702764554816778240/phot...

Also note with SES, you have to write some code to handle bounces and complaints programmatically. Unlike Mandrill and Sendgrid, there is no UI dashboard to manage any e-mails.

I have been finding this out after a product launch. Worked great in testing, lots of bounces in production.

I switched to sparkpost. Took about an hour. 100k emails / month are free.