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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by vskarine on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:48PM (#11171210)
Any good examples on using templating with variables in SendGrid? The docs are not very clear on that (you call them tags is that it?). I think you can get a lot of users if you show one to one mapping of API and common processes between Mandrill and SendGrid.
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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by yesimahuman on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:18PM (#11171707)
A few years ago I went with Mandrill over SendGrid because of the lack of templates. I wanted designers/marketers to be able to edit the templates and with sendgrid that was really difficult. A couple years later and you guys caught up and then some. Excited to come back after this Mandrill change!
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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by compy234 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:29PM (#11171740)
I am in the same boat. Glad to also give SendGrid a look!
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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by etjossem on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:55PM (#11171250)
Yep, if you're using the SMTP API, see https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/SMTP_API/substitutio....

If you're using a wrapper like sendgrid-ruby (https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby), check out its documentation page on GitHub. For instance, here's how to use substitution tags in Ruby: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby#working-with-templ...

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by mrmch on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:40PM (#11171783)
Also check us out: https://www.sendwithus.com/docs/templating

Our template engine (Jinja) is the most advanced of any email platform out there.

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by mapunk on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:14PM (#11171924)
Stop spamming your service all throughout the thread. It's annoying and certainly turns me off to it.
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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by techdragon on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:28PM (#11172177)
I would say their pricing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172142 is more off putting than the spam. Its almost quaint.
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