I assume Mailchimp is really just trying to kill Mandrill off?
News and General
http://blog.mailchimp.com/important-changes-to-mandrill/
Sigh. I backed the wrong horse. Should have gone with Mailgun. I’d be happy to pay something like $10/month for them to just leave it alone. I don’t want the hassle and $20 for a Mailchimp account I won’t otherwise use seems steep. But the thought of migrating all the things and custom integrations I’ve done over the years is not fun. So I guess I’ll bite the bullet for now.
Ugh.
We’re a little curious how it will shake out as well, as we are big fans of Mandrill. I’ve even been building a plugin that gives template tag access to the full Mandrill API. Mailchimp has a free tier for 12k emails, so I’m wondering if they’ll make that shared with the Mandrill “add-on” once things go live in spring.
I can’t find the explicitly language now, but it was explicitly stated somewhere that free Mailchimp plans would not qualify. And as it is, all language says paid mailchimp account.
Going forward, all Mandrill users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account.
http://blog.mailchimp.com/important-changes-to-mandrill/
Mandrill is becoming a paid add-on for monthly MailChimp accounts. Any paid monthly MailChimp plan will satisfy the new requirements. Monthly MailChimp plans start at $10/month, and you can find more information on MailChimp’s Pricing Page.
I saw that too, but none of it’s live yet, and they’re getting significant push back. In other words, I’m hopeful that their business needs will allow for some flexibility as they blur the line between their two services. All of the other transactional email providers are salivating like wolves and pushing campaigns already.
Luckily anything I had on Mandrill was insignificant and only for personal projects. I feel for any dev who had any charity work on them though. Any commercial projects we have been using Postmark which I’ve been very happy with.
But yeah, if other services aren’t monopolizing on this I’d be surprised.
Note that CampaignMonitor have a transactional email service now too but all under the CM umbrella which is where Mailchimp may be shooting for in the future..