Do you use the Mandrill HTTP API or SMTP API and why?
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Mandrill offers the ability to send using a HTTP based API and also as a simple SMTP Relay. Do you prefer to generate emails on your own server and then just relay them through Mandrill or do you make use of the Mandrill HTTP API. Your reason for choosing that option would be helpful.
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Answer:
For the project I'm using Mandrill for we ended up using the WordPress plugin wpMandrill (which uses the API) because the project used WordPress for the framework. If you only want to send emails, I'd say use whichever option is easiest for you to setup. The API offers other functionality outside of sending emails. If you want/need to do any of that, then you'll need to use the API.
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Other answers
Strange behavior when sending via the API, or delayed e-mails, or it seems to me by some and not send it. Using SMTP (using phpmailer) is somehow safer, but I get the impression that you send via SMTP, e-mails can go to the spam mailbox
Aleksandar Jovic
I prefer to use the smtp API. With python, remote SMTP is very easily accomplished with mandrill in only a few lines of code. Where as with the http API you would be forced to work with their library or write your own http request and parse the response
Garrett R. Morris
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