Just to back this person up, on Mandrills account page it states: "Use Mandrill to send automated one-to-one email like password resets and welcome messages, a

Just to back this person up, on Mandrills account page it states: "Use Mandrill to send automated one-to-one email like password resets and welcome messages, as well as marketing emails and customized newsletters." Emphasis on the "as well as marketing emails and customized newsletters" section there. https://mandrill.com/about/ https://mandrill.com/about/ The difference of Mandril is that is doesn't have all the fancy features of Mailchip that people "would expect" to create a newsletter etc so Mandril is aimed at developers/software etc. That does not mean you can not use it for same uses as Mailchimp though.