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by cmorrisrsg 13y ago
Lead engineer at MailChimp here. Funny you should mention it, but tomorrow we're going to be launching Google Authenticator and YubiKey integrations with AlterEgo so you can use those as you like. We're also working on a Duo integration, bu
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
We saw it pop up on Centos6 as well. JRE 1.6 and 1.7.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
We saw this on every Ubuntu Lucid machine we run. Restarting the JVM was insufficient - we ended up fully rebooting the machines.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
Yes - the pricing is flat rate. Right now charging for inbound emails is turned off since the feature is so new and basic, but inbound emails will be indexed and tracked the same as outbound emails, so they'll be charged the same.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
Well, supporting unsubscribes in transactional emails can sometimes make sense, like with notification or confirmation emails where the user might want the option to not receive them. With others, like receipts or signup confirmations it ma
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
It's really simple right now. We add a List-Unsubscribe header to each email which in supporting email clients (like gmail) adds an unsubscribe button to the report spam button that's always there. If the recipient unsubscribes in that way
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
We've considered it, but we're still working on our reseller/integrator story.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
You can customize DKIM without a dedicated IP. You do need to have a paid plan to get the dedicated IP, but that's really because you need at least a few hundred thousand emails per month of volume before getting a dedicated IP. With lower
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
Yes - you can use Mandrill for newsletters if you want to code your own subscription logic and store your own list of emails. MailChimp is quite a bit more expensive than Mandrill, but it does a lot more too. MailChimp stores more analytics
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
Not yet. The inbound system right now is really basic - we'll parse out the messages and deliver them to a webhook, but we won't munge it much beyond breaking apart attachments and things.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
There are a few things that we think set Mandrill apart from the pack. Our application is designed with responsiveness in mind, and we have mobile application on both of the major platforms so you can get access to your email stats and repu
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
We're trying to make Mandrill a stable email platform for all uses, so in that way we're similar to SendGrid. Where we're really trying to focus isn't so much in just the delivery of the email, though we do have a ton of experience doing th
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
That's one of the reasons we chose that name for the brand. Since Mandrill is an infrastructure service, we wanted it to feel more serious and aggressive than MailChimp.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
We built on top of our own internal job scheduling systems that we use for email to handle retries, batching, and concurrency handling so we don't overwhelm your servers. It's all custom stuff, though.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
You do get all the information we have on the message and the bounce. Recipient, sender, subject line, bounce info, tags, etc.
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by cmorrisrsg 14y ago
Hey - I'm Chad, the project lead for Mandrill. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have.
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
A viable solution going forward is to have browsers implement both the vendor-prefixed and non-vendor-prefixed versions of a property, but use the vendor-prefixed one preferentially. That would allow developers to use one non-prefixed rule
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
This is only hypocritical if when Stallman says "phone", he always means "cell phone". Just to be a devil's advocate, he could be talking about a landline which generally doesn't track movement, doesn't run software, and doesn't get turned
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
Any coding problem that could feasibly be completed in an acceptable amount of time would be too small to actually tell me what I want to know. I mostly don't want to know what algorithms you're aware of or how quickly you can type. I want
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
I actually reject people without pet projects for an entirely different reason. I can find out much more about how you behave as a developer and whether or not you'd fit in with our company by reading your code than I can from any kind of i
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
It'll be interesting to see how much this gets adopted. Ad-hoc query languages like SQL are great for operations and reporting, but if your NoSQL store needs to conform to the limitations of the unQL language, aren't you losing that "polyg
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
I like this, supposing that it lets extensions request permissions at the point when the user tries to do something requiring the permission, rather than at install time. At install time, the user has no idea why the extension needs a perm
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by cmorrisrsg 15y ago
The Lua community has been historically more focused on embedded and scripting scenarios, and less on building a comprehensive platform for libraries and applications (compare the quality and availability of LuaRocks to PyPI, Ruby Gems, CPA
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by cmorrisrsg 16y ago
It's probably not a slight against Chrome. These sorts of edge-case error pages are typically some of the least up-to-date for a website. You need to use a browser they don't test with to see it, so naturally they won't see the page durin
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by cmorrisrsg 16y ago
No, bulk importing does not send a resubscribe message. MailChimp assumes that if you have access to the address list, then you have permission to send.
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by cmorrisrsg 16y ago
Copying this from my blog comment answering the same question... Pseudo-transactional campaigns are very "pseudo". MailChimp campaigns require static predefined content. If you actually wanted to vary the content from recipient to recipie
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by cmorrisrsg 16y ago
No fine-print. Our high volume plans for large email lists are not unlimited, but smaller lists are completely free to send as much as they want. In practice, you'll hit our anti-spam limits long before you hurt our profitability if you t
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by cmorrisrsg 17y ago
We had a fairly conservative cross-validation function that tested the results of the genetic optimization for a first pass. Following that, Omnivore was put into "observation" mode, so we could verify that the results it generated were pr