Move from Mandrill?

[dahacouk]

Mandrill is becoming a MailChimp add-on. All Mandrill users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account by April 27. Read more

We don't have a paid monthly MailChimp account. So, I'm wondering about alternatives. Any ideas?

[dahacouk]

I'm just going to start listing ones I come across. Feel free to edit this comment and add more in here:

• https://postmarkapp.com
• https://sendgrid.com/marketing/mandrill-alternative
• https://www.metachris.com/2016/03/free-transactional-email-services-the-best-alternatives-to-mandrill/

[dahacouk]

As decided we are just going to remove the transactional integration and let the server handle sending these emails. Simple. But would just like to keep an eye on how these emails are sent and who they seem to come from. Yay!

[dahacouk]

I guess we need to sort this in the next day?

[andystiller]

I have changed mail system configuration to use the default Drupal mail system. I have tested by requesting a password reset and checking the message headers. Before the change the message headers included mandril after the change mandril wasn't shown in the message header.

The Mandril module and configuration are still enabled but are not used for sending emails.

[dahacouk]

@andystiller is there a way I can get a copy of everything sent out by the Drupal site? I had this set up with Mandril and it was useful for seeing activity. Cheers!

[andystiller]

@dahacouk I assume that the set-up was actually in the Mandril account confiuration not on your site. I've had a quick look into the options and there are a few possible ways to send you and email when people register etc. The suggestions I've seen online are to use Rules to send you an email whe certain events are triggered like a user registering.

[dahacouk]

@andystiller Hmm... Yes, it was set up in Mandril. Sounds like it is not as simple as just saying "send Daniel a copy of any/all outgoing email"...? If it is then great. If it's going to be a bit complex then perhaps best to... is there a log of all emails sent, somewhere in Drupal so I can just periodically check it?

[andystiller]

Thre's nothing in the default Drupal set-up that log emails. There are modules that can be installed to do what you want. If you just want to know that a message has been sent there are the mail server logs.