The Old Man Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 9 hours ago, Lindy said: Sparkpost integration is complete and will be in the next release. Awesome, thanks Lindy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZyan Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Great news - thanks a lot! Sorry to ask - but is there any plan or advice how to integrate this in the 3.4.x version? I run five big 3.4.9 boards depending on email campaigns - and I can't go for 4.1.x as long there is no running classifieds app available... Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Irons Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 On 4/1/2016 at 10:55 AM, Lindy said: Sparkpost integration is complete and will be in the next release. I don't see it in 4.1.10, or am I overlooking it? Nevermind, it's in the release notes for 4.1.11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilihead Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 April Fools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Irons Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Just now, chilihead said: April Fools LOL his post was made on Friday to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilihead Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 lol I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 On 02/04/2016 at 6:39 AM, Andreas Jürgensen said: Great news - thanks a lot! Sorry to ask - but is there any plan or advice how to integrate this in the 3.4.x version? I run five big 3.4.9 boards depending on email campaigns - and I can't go for 4.1.x as long there is no running classifieds app available... Andreas I used SparkPost on a 349 board, no issues noticed at all (swapped from Mandrill) The setup is quite easy as you do not need to choose any of the extra options in the S.P panel really. What are you having difficulty with ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZyan Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 On 7. April 2016 at 4:47 AM, AndyF said: What are you having difficulty with ? Speed. Via Mandrill I can send out 20,000+ mails in a few minutes. Plus a few minutes for Mandrill to get them to the subscribers. Sparkpost or any other provider via SMTP takes hours. In my business this is way too long. I worked with that over years - and it was fantastic to find a tool like Mandrill and its integration in IPBoard. Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Corby-Tuech Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 On 08/04/2016 at 5:52 AM, Andreas Jürgensen said: Speed. Via Mandrill I can send out 20,000+ mails in a few minutes. Plus a few minutes for Mandrill to get them to the subscribers. Sparkpost or any other provider via SMTP takes hours. In my business this is way too long. I worked with that over years - and it was fantastic to find a tool like Mandrill and its integration in IPBoard. Andreas You can still use Mandrill, you just have to pay for it. If you're frequently sending Marketing emails to your users, it's probably worth using a decent paid-for ESP. Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think here - decent sending infrastructure isn't free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZyan Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 @Jacques Corby-Tuech I have paid for Mandrill and I'm continuing to do so. I know that good infrastructure has its price and I'm absolutely willing to pay for it. I have two problems with Mailchimp / Mandrill: 1. Price: Until now my Mandrill bill was about 80$ per month, flexible depending on how much mails I send. From now on I have to pay more than 250$ - three times more. Sparkpost will be around 100$. This is 1,800$ difference per year - enough for me to care about... 2. Company Policy My business model depends on my communities and the ability to reach out to my members fast and reliably via the forum software Mailchimp has made clear that they are not interested in customers like me, so I'm not willing to base my business on a partner who is not really interested. And who might pull the plug - as they have done right now. The short time span from announcement to switch speaks also for itself. So, emotions aside - I need a good, affordable and reliable long-term solution. And I hope that IP will provide this good solution - like the Mandrill solution was. Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBTheme Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 We have until April 26th before Mandrill will no longer work. Will IPB 4.1.11 be released before then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Man Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Hi Sherri, It works okay for now using the SMTP settings. I'm hoping full intergration may take some load off though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog107_merged Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 7 hours ago, IBTheme said: We have until April 26th before Mandrill will no longer work. Will IPB 4.1.11 be released before then? +1, just did the math and my costs will go from ~60/mo to $240/mo. So the sooner the better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Lindy Posted April 24, 2016 Management Share Posted April 24, 2016 It will be released on Monday... yes, just in the knick of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Man Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Awesome, thanks Lindy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZyan Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Thanks - much appreciated! Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VR6Pete Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 i have just migrated from Mandrill to Spark Post following the update to 4.1.11 - It took about 10 minutes if that to setup! I've also just updated the "Mandrill bouncer" plugin developed by @stoo2000 that also now supports SparkPost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog107_merged Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 On 4/24/2016 at 9:24 PM, Lindy said: It will be released on Monday... yes, just in the knick of time. Thanks, sending from sparkpost now. Looks good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBTheme Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Thank you so much guys! I'm finding that I like SparkPost a lot better, and it has a great deal more email allowances than Mandrill ever did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradl Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 One thing I miss (or haven't found yet) is with Mandrill I could see the actual outgoing messages (titles at least). That really helped me a few times where I could see when and where a specific notification had gone out, That said, so far so good with sparkpost. Can't imagine needing a fraction of the allowance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Warren Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I've noticed the Sparkpost integration is MUCH faster than Sparkpost SMTP Interjection, is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Silvester Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 14 hours ago, bradl said: One thing I miss (or haven't found yet) is with Mandrill I could see the actual outgoing messages (titles at least). That really helped me a few times where I could see when and where a specific notification had gone out, That said, so far so good with sparkpost. Can't imagine needing a fraction of the allowance! In SparkPost, Reports > Message Events does give you some of this information. 1 hour ago, Lenny Warren said: I've noticed the Sparkpost integration is MUCH faster than Sparkpost SMTP Interjection, is that right? We also found the SMTP injection was a little slow, we send everything to SparkPost via their HTTP API. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_B Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I've switched over to Sparkpost from Mandrill. I initially tried using the API integration but I couldn't find a way of turning off the Sparkpost link tracking? So it means all links in emails go through Sparkpost first - this also caused an issue with 'unfollow' links in the bottom of each email not working correctly. Switching back to using Sparkpost via SMTP - there is an option in Sparkpost to turn off link tracking for SMTP which fixes both the issues above. I've filed a bug report about this issue but wandered if anybody else had noticed it or found a solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevengeFNF Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I changed again to Sparkpost, and while email to Gmail is going to the inbox, emails to hotmail are going to trash. Anyone noticing the same thing? Everything is well configured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Irons Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 It's most likely your SPF records, I had the same exact problem for quite some time, then it started working properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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