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One advantage that Mandrill has over SendGrid is the ability to see the content of emails (run a web agency so it helps a lot with troubleshooting for our clien
by wmboy 11y ago
One advantage that Mandrill has over SendGrid is the ability to see the content of emails (run a web agency so it helps a lot with troubleshooting for our clients).
- etjossem 11y agoThat makes a lot of sense! On the backend, we've already built a way to view content samples (for compliance reasons, e.g. if something looks spammy and we need a human to confirm). It would certainly be possible to expose that functionality to users. I'll run that by the PM on the relevant team - you're not alone in wanting that feature.
- wmboy 11y agoI just tried SendGrid out now, unless I'm mistaken you can't even see subject line in the emails that are sent, is this correct?
- etjossem 11y agoYou can look in the Email Activity tab to see a history of events, along with their category (you might use this for "receipt", "forgot password", etc.). https://sendgrid.com/docs/User_Guide/email_activity.html https://sendgrid.com/docs/User_Guide/email_activity.html If you're doing one-to-many campaigns, we also have a marketing email product called Marketing Campaigns that offers a more detailed content history.
- ROFISH 11y agoDefinitely +1 on this. It's a great feature to see if A) emails are being sent and B) templates weren't messed up in some way. (I have had many a batch email with "{{name}" or some other templating error, heh.)
- HugoDias 11y agoI think NOW it's the time to build that feature, ASAP. cc @etjossem
- wmboy 11y agoYeah absolutely if SendGrid builds this functionality and creates a 'Welcome Mandrill customers' page, then you guys will get a whole heap of new signups right away!
- hodoublesy 11y agoAgree 100%.. this is an insane move by Mandrill and if SendGrid can at least show email subjects they will reap the benefits imo !
- etjossem 11y agoWe're discussing what it would take to build it right now. It's absolutely one of the things people appreciated about Mandrill, and I know we want to ease the transition as much as possible.
- jrodom 11y agoWe're working on adding that feature into Mailgun now. We store the content for compliance review and scheduled sends. Disclosure: I lead product development @ Mailgun.
- leesalminen 11y agoThat would an amazing feature add. I'm currently sending 150k/mo with Mailgun and log everything for 6 months. It's rarely accessed, but invaluable when it is.
- safun 11y agoFor your reference: http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/
- mrmch 11y agoWe do this (Sendwithus.com) -- not only see email with all personalization, but see it on the device a customer used (was the link really broken on an iPhone?)
- spronkey 11y agoCSS inlining as well - last time we looked SendGrid did not have this functionality.
- etjossem 11y agoThere are lots of existing resources out there for automatically inlining CSS after writing your template, so we recommend you use whichever one you like best. Zurb Foundation has one with a web interface: http://foundation.zurb.com/emails/inliner.html http://foundation.zurb.com/emails/inliner.html I personally prefer Jon Kemp's open source inliner, which is a good choice if you want to do that step locally: https://github.com/jonkemp/inline-css https://github.com/jonkemp/inline-css
- jrodom 11y agoToday, we launched a new API that allows you to access the content of messages you've sent over the last three days. We have details on our blog @ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/ http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/