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Wylio / meteor-mandrill

Meteor package for sending email via Mandrill
https://atmospherejs.com/wylio/mandrill
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Mandrill is forcing people to start paying for MailChimp or (suggested) move to SparkPost... #18

Closed chrisco23 closed 7 years ago

chrisco23 commented 8 years ago

I've been using this package for a long time but my app is still in a sort of closed alpha state and I have no intention of paying for MailChimp right now for a few test emails. Mandrill itself recommends now moving to SparkPost.

Anybody else hit with this recently? Any work on a SparkPost package, or some other recommendation?

logankoester commented 8 years ago

:+1:

sourabh-shankar commented 8 years ago

Will this package work after mandrill merger with mailchimp?

danlg commented 8 years ago

same issue for me. any recommendation for SparkPost meteor package ?

sourabh-shankar commented 8 years ago

just to confirm "Wylio/meteor-mandrill" is working fine once you merge mandrill account with mailchimp. you have to pay a monthly fee though. also, you need to verify your domain with DKIM and SPF keys

chrisco23 commented 8 years ago

Good to know. However I've been working on an extremely-slow-moving (specs trickling in) project that will be largely a notification service but still with very low volume email, for the foreseeable future, maybe always, and I really don't like having one more nagging bill for something I don't need. I don't even like paying $5 for Google Apps and only using 0.001% of it, but that's another story.

I've started down the path with Sparkpost, who welcomes Mandrill refugees. They do the DKIM and SPF keys too but that takes about 2 minutes to add two TXT DNS records and verify. But I remember I did go through a fair amount of work originally getting Mandrill working with all the reactive SSR etc. We need to email HTML tables full of reactive data. I don't know yet how hard the real transition will be. I'm planning to look into both rgnevashev:sparkpost and the npm sparkpost packages.

dandv commented 8 years ago

At this point I'd recommend SparkPost as well.

dandv commented 7 years ago

Updated the README with details on the SparkPost migration.