Consider using Mandrill for transactional emails

[joshbodily]

So, I understand that we already use MailChimp for mailing lists. Apparently, Mandrill is available now as a plugin for MailChimp that let's you create templates for transactional emails. I think this is going to give us better results than using Rails + AWS b/c the emails will look predictable and better.

@derek-boman Can you create templates for the emails we have discussed thus far and note what the merge vars are for each one

• [ ] Invite email + Join Group Instructions https://github.com/JoiaApp/email/issues/4
• [ ] Daily Summary email https://github.com/JoiaApp/email/issues/2
• [ ] Mention + Invite email (i.e. recipient was mentioned by email, but not already a member of Joia) https://github.com/JoiaApp/email/issues/3
• [ ] Forgot Password #13
• [ ] Welcome email https://github.com/JoiaApp/email/issues/1

@dansftown You guys already pay for MailChimp, right? If we "switch" to Mandrill+MailChimp you can roll back the changes in AWS SES back to the free tier. Hopefully it will be easier to do email w/ MailChimp :crossed_fingers:

Thanks!

[joshbodily]

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/how-to-send-transactional-emails-from-rails-with-mandrill

[dansftown]

I'm fine with swithering to Mandrill, Derek, what do you think?

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[derek-boman]

@joshbodily here is the API key: i1Eu_yKetF6po1Cm9UhhSw

[derek-boman]

Updating @joshbodily original comment to add links to issues for each email type.