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Mandrill
ByMandrillMandrill

Mandrill

#5in Email Services
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Followers1.59k
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What is Mandrill?

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.

Mandrill is a tool in the Email Services category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Inbound Email- Set up inboxes for Mandrill to control. When they receive email, we’ll make an API call to your app with all the relevant information, so you don’t have to worry about what’s happening behind the scenes.Webhooks Support- Create custom event notifications, keep track of new signups and unsubscribes in real-time, get a notice of every spam complaint so you can flag them in your database.Rules Engine- Modify the content of email coming through Mandrill without having to involve developers. For example, you could tell Mandrill to take any email coming from confirmation@yourdomain.com, give it a new template, and add Google Analytics tracking.Advanced Tagging and Reports- Generate custom reports based on the stats that matter to you. Add campaign tags like “confirmation email” and “mailing list,” and combine them with data Mandrill automatically tracks. Tagging allows you to graph sets of data like “bounce rate for confirmation emails to Gmail addresses.”Meaningful Metrics- Observe trends and monitor delivery to see if you’re on track or if you need to make adjustments. Search by recipient or domain, sort sent email by bounces or rejections, and track opens and clicks.Status Updates- Troubleshoot from wherever you are, and send status messages to recipients from MandrillMobile Access- Your transactional email is generated at all hours. Mandrill is the only service with a mobile app, so you can monitor your performance even when you’re away from your desk.

Mandrill Pros & Cons

Pros of Mandrill

  • ✓Simple installation
  • ✓Great api
  • ✓Generous free allowance to get you started
  • ✓Cheap and simple
  • ✓Trackable
  • ✓Well-documented
  • ✓Doesn't go to spam
  • ✓Great for mailchimp users
  • ✓Webhooks
  • ✓Client libraries

Cons of Mandrill

  • ✗Really hard to pull analytics out via api

Mandrill Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Mandrill?

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

Mailgun

Mailgun

Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

Nodemailer

Nodemailer

It is a single module with zero dependencies – code is easily auditable. The email delivery is Secure using TLS/STARTTLS. You can use HTML content, as well as plain text alternative.

Postmark

Postmark

Postmark removes the headaches of delivering and parsing email for webapps with minimal setup time and zero maintenance.

Mailjet

Mailjet

Mailjet is a real-time Cloud Emailing platform: scalable, agile and flexible. Our unique algorithm boosts your deliverability and our platform provides in-depth insight so you can optimize more than ever.

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Mandrill Integrations

Parse, Parse, sendwithus, Apostle.io, DataHero and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Mandrill. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Mandrill.

Parse
Parse
Parse
Parse
sendwithus
sendwithus
Apostle.io
Apostle.io
DataHero
DataHero
GoSquared
GoSquared
bip.io
bip.io
Backand
Backand
Leftronic
Leftronic
Woopra
Woopra
Status.io
Status.io
OutSystems
OutSystems

Mandrill Discussions

Discover why developers choose Mandrill. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Todd Gardner
Todd Gardner

President at TrackJS

Nov 29, 2018

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We've moved our transactional email away from Mandrill to Mailgun. We had continued using Mandrill after Mailchimp deprecated the service awhile back, because the amount of credits we were offered essentially made it free.

However, following a couple weeks of frequent downtime and poor service transparency from Mandrill, we decided it was time to make the switch. It appears they no longer had any engineers with the ability to identify the core problems.

Mailgun has been more reliable, yet not as reliable as we expected. We still see issues a few times per week with the API failing when we attempt to make a call. The Reporting UI is way better.

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Joel Serino
Joel Serino

Senior Engineer & Team Lead at Giftstarter

Aug 5, 2015

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We send monkeys to space and back with Mandrill. And transnational emails. Mandrill

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Antonio Calderon Jeronimo
Antonio Calderon Jeronimo

Developer

Dec 11, 2014

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Mandrill helps me to send emails to clients fastly, also is trackable, that's cool. Mandrill

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Greg Taylor
Greg Taylor

Sr. Software Engineer at Pathwright

Nov 10, 2014

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We started off with AWS SES, but found it to be lacking in diagnostics and reporting. Mandrill is a quantum leap forward in this regard. Has some other really neat features carried over from MailChimp (templating). Mandrill

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Cyrus Stoller
Cyrus Stoller

Jul 14, 2014

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For sending emails. I use this primarily for password resets in this application. Mandrill

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