TL;DR: Mandrill wanted to raise their prices 4x. They found a way to do that by merging with Mailchimp. Here are some Mandrill alternatives.
I know I know … I sound like a click-baity BuzzFeed headline, sorry.
But that’s, more or less, the case.
The backstory:
Mandrill is was probably the perfect solution for sending transactional email. For instance, if you have a website that needs this sort of functionality (e.g an eCommerce store) or an app, you can use Mandrill for one-to-one communication with your customers.
Mandrill is just expensive for what it actually is.
The best one with “value for money” is, for me, Amazon SES.
Thank you to whomever suggested SparkPost — utterly brilliant and utterly free for < 100,000 pcm.
Sorry, I just realised this is a way-old thread. But still. It helped me enormously.
Hello, thank you for this post, but after reading it seems that Mandrill is still the easiest to integrate with WordPress ? Maybe the reason why it is worth paying a little bit more… ?