Comments on: Transactional Email Support

By: somesh

somesh — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:34:31 +0000

Is there any way to change the content of the campaign using same campaign ID and without creating the new campaign

Thank You

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:03:40 +0000

We launched a transactional service that piggybacks off of Amazon’s SES in February: http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-email-service-on-top-of-amazon-ses/

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:16:34 +0000

MailChimp has been strangely silent on this transactional email problem lately.

Back in March 30, 2010, someone posted that its “in the works”. Here we are a year later.

Any progress? This is starting to a real road block for enterprise customers that do lots of transactional emails.

By: Mladen

Mladen — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:12:03 +0000

It is possible, and I have the same question about blacklisting…

By: AM

AM — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:10:49 +0000

If I am inferring correctly.. I can subscribe an email to a list, send the event-based message, and then unsubscribe them from this list through the API. This way we could potentially send multiple messages to the same email as necessary (subscribe -> unsubscribe ->subscribe loop).

If the above is possible, my question here is..

- What happens to email stats under this scenario? Are snapshots still available for unsubscribed users after the fact?

- Does the unsubscribe API action cause the list to be blacklisted ?

Thanks in advance for your reply!

By: Mladen

Mladen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:16:45 +0000

Is it necessarily for transactional campaigns to have UNSUB link?

Thanks

By: Archibald

Archibald — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:00:52 +0000

Hi ben,

Pseudo Transactional email it’s good. But when mailchimp it’s ready for real transactional email ?

I search to send a transactional email message to a single email recipient.

By: Michael Cramer

Michael Cramer — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:30:14 +0000

Has there been any response to your question? I have the same requirement. I don’t want to have to manage the campaigns in the code or in a database and reinvent the wheel that mail chimp already has for editing templates.

Is there a way to edit the template of a transactional campaign inside the mail chimp web interface?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:06:13 +0000

We ended up using MadMimi for transactional email on the site I recently launched. It was very easy to set up and there is a free package. Really, REALLY wish MailChimp would get this in place though as so many solutions integrate with MailChimp. Come on guys! =)

By: krama

krama — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:48:50 +0000

so after some additional research, here’s what I discovered for my fledgling project:

1. Mailchimp will not fit the bill for transactional support – if someone requests a password reset twice, using mailchimp for sending that email out is hard.

2. Postage: requires an smtp server on my own – so not sure what the app buys me

3. JangoMail – seems like the cheapest freemium solution for transactional mail support – 300 Free emails – solid api and documentation.

In light of the above, I think it would be great if mailchimp could support real transactional emails.