I am looking for some advice from the community, I am putting together an application which needs an emailing system for user notifications and such. I have seen there are a few extensions available and obviously there are non-yii email extensions around the net as well. I would love to hear about people’s experience with this rather than pick one blindly.
It’s not going to be used for marketing as I already use mailchimp for that so I don’t need list management or queue sending or any of that.
If you are already using Mailchimp for your lists and need a solution for your transactional emails, I suggest that you try Mailchimp Mandrill. I created a very simple extension around it and it was very easy.
Looks interesting, not sure I like the idea of outsourcing transactional emails but I am aware it is probably not for any good reason. I’m not sure how customers would feel about emails coming from an external source.
So it looks like I am probably going to go with Mandrill, there are other services available that do something similar but I always liked the ‘chimp’ so that’s good enough for me. It actually looks like a much better system than managing them using something like swift mailer - at least for a small/med site where volume is low enough that it is not costly.
I will probably be creating a pretty complete extension to work with the API, if anyone has done any work towards this let me know and we can maybe put our heads together.