Context.IO vs Mandrill: What are the differences?
What is Context.IO? A REST email API that makes it easy and fast to integrate your user's email data in your application. As soon as a mailbox is connected, we create a metadata index of its content starting from the most recent emails which become available from the API within seconds. Context.IO takes care of synching email data for your app so you don't have to build, scale and maintain this infrastructure yourself. Focus on what's unique to your business, we'll manage the technical details of integrating with arcane email server protocols.
What is Mandrill? Send transactional, triggered, and personalized email, then track results. Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.
Context.IO belongs to "Email API" category of the tech stack, while Mandrill can be primarily classified under "Transactional Email".
Some of the features offered by Context.IO are:
- REST Beats IMAP
- Contacts- Recipients and senders with stats like message count and latest sent/received.
- Files- Each attachment has a unique id to access its content and history.
On the other hand, Mandrill provides the following 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.
