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Is it possible to IPS make a script to change that database collation from utf8 to utf8mb4 for those that did not chose this collation on the 3.4 to 4.0 upgrade?

Ouups sorry it was a mistake, not sendy but elastic email :
http://elasticemail.com/

Sendy is not a SMTP service, it allows you to create newsletter and have control about the lists. However, what would be the benefit to integrate it with the email bouncer? 

+1
please check sendy, its verrry cheap service, hope you can integrate :
https://sendy.co/
 

Same problem here. It's abusive.
Please @stoo2000, upgrade the Mandrill Bouncer to work with other companies or to work even with our own server smtp.

I'm still waiting to see what's going on with IPS4, it would be far easier to integrate with SparkPost for example if it was supported as a 'community enhancement' already. It makes a lot of sense to support some of the other providers though.

Same problem here. It's abusive.
Please @stoo2000, upgrade the Mandrill Bouncer to work with other companies or to work even with our own server smtp.

We are also most definitely going to be looking for an alternative to Mandrill. It would really suck if we didn't have the ability to use this app, as-is or a new version with another email provider. I have no issues paying $20 for a MailChimp account. The issue is that we are going to need to pay for almost 300K members in order to send our monthly newsletter once per month. That's an additional $1,300 for sending one newsletter. Not gonna happen!

@stoo2000
Any chance Mandrill Bouncer will work "as is" with SparkPost?
If not, will you be offering an alternative. I would hate to lose this great tool.
Thanks!

It looks like your cost will be at least $100/mo if you have under 100,000 members. $20/mo per block of 25,000 mandrill emails and at least $20 per month for mailchimp depending on if they only consider you having less than 1500 subscribers. That would be $20/mo for mailchimp if the assumption is correct and $80/mo for the mandrill sends. if you have 100,001 to 125,000 members you email it would cost $20 more per month. etc per block of 25,000.
Mandrill is no longer the best option for transactional email. Fact is, in my opinion it's a costly option now.

Member Map
View File IPS 4.4 ONLY 
For IPS 4.3, use version 3.5.7
Member Map is an application that allows your users to put their (Exact or approx) location onto an interactive map. Member Map has a permission model so you can limit which groups can add to the map.

As an administrator you have the ability to create custom groups where your community (when allowed) can place other markers in the map, for example if they would like to post the location of an upcoming meet, exhibits, shops, etc.
For developers
If you are a developer and you store location data in your app that you'd like to show on the map, you can now do so creating a membermap/Mapmarkers extension. Instruction on how to use it is included in the auto-generated file.
Submitter Martin A. Submitted 03/18/2010 Category Member Extensions Compatibility 4.4  

@stoo2000 ...here is something else you may want to look at from a discussion about what mandrill is doing. A lot of unhappy folks out there.
Fortunately when I've start to use Mandrill, I didn't build directly all my email service on top of it. Specially for webhooks that are very usefull. I've made a bundle to use them indifferently from various service. It's available here https://github.com/ScullWM/MailHookBundle and it supports Campainmonitor, Mailjet, Mandrill (sic), Mailgun and Sendgrid.
As long as you get a paid Maichimp account and don't mind the increased pricing for mandrill...I assume yes.

There's a discussion going on about this: https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/427013-mandrill-no-longer-free/
From what I can see, the biggest change is for the users that don't pay anything for the service.

Thought you might want to see an email from Mandrill I just received:
 
Hello,

We're writing to let you know about some significant changes that will affect your Mandrill account.

Going forward, all Mandrill users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account and verify ownership of all sending domains. Here's the timeline: Starting 3/16, all new Mandrill users will create accounts through MailChimp, and current Mandrill users can merge their existing Mandrill account with a monthly MailChimp account. Current users will have until 4/27 to merge their accounts.

Why we're making this change

The MailChimp team built Mandrill in 2012 as a transactional email tool. Mandrill has always been under the MailChimp umbrella, but it has functioned as a completely separate product. Mandrill is now becoming an optional add-on to paid MailChimp accounts. This is a strategic change we're making to close the gap between the two products and focus on the MailChimp marketing platform. MailChimp is designed for marketing, and Mandrill is designed for transactional messages. Each is powerful on its own, and offering Mandrill as an add-on makes MailChimp even more powerful for our small business and e-commerce customers. Our CEO and cofounder Ben Chestnut wrote more about the changes on the MailChimp blog.

What you need to know

The application's functionality and look and feel are not changing at this time. Here are the important changes that will affect your account:

Starting today, Mandrill will adopt MailChimp's Terms of Use and Acceptable Use Policy. These terms reinforce that Mandrill should be used for transactional email, and bulk email/email marketing campaigns should be sent through MailChimp. In addition, MailChimp's Privacy Policy, which has always covered Mandrill, has been updated. If you have any questions about our policy changes, please email legal@mailchimp.com.
To continue using Mandrill, all users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account by 4/27.
All Mandrill users will be required to verify their sending domains and add SPF and DKIM records by 4/27. This is already in effect for new Mandrill users.
Starting 3/16, all new Mandrill accounts will be created and accessed through MailChimp.
Starting 3/16, the Mandrill mobile application will no longer be available for installation. It will remain functional for existing users until 4/27.
Our billing and pricing model is also changing. MailChimp will generate one consolidated bill that covers your MailChimp and Mandrill charges. Mandrill credits will be sold in blocks of 25,000 emails. Blocks will start at $20 per month. This goes into effect once your accounts are merged.
Any existing discounts, free credits, and free accounts will no longer be valid once your accounts are merged.
What you need to do

If you already have a paid monthly MailChimp account, you’ll be able to merge your accounts starting on 3/16. We’ll send detailed instructions at that time.
If you don't have a paid monthly MailChimp account and decide to create one, you can go to mailchimp.com and do so at any time. You'll be able to merge your accounts starting on 3/16. We'll send detailed instructions at that time.
If you haven't already done so, you'll need to add SPF and DKIM records and verify ownership of your sending domains. Here's an article explaining how to do that. Starting 4/27, Mandrill will not send any email from unverified domains or domains without valid SPF and DKIM records, including public domains like gmail.com and yahoo.com.
If you don't have a paid monthly MailChimp account merged with your Mandrill account by 4/27, then your Mandrill account will be disabled.

If you have questions or need technical support, please log in to your Mandrill account and click Support in your dashboard. We've made support available to all users on free and paid accounts.

We know this is disruptive, and we understand that it may affect your decision to use Mandrill. Please know that we carefully considered these changes. The new structure will allow us to create more flexible products and better serve our customers. Thanks for using Mandrill, and we hope to welcome you to MailChimp soon.

- The Mandrill team

P.S. To clarify the Mandrill Reputation, a bad reputation doesn't mean that your emails won't get delivered. A poor reputation will mean that you can only send so many emails per hours. The more emails that are sent that are successfully will improve the reputation, with improved reputation the more mails you will be able to send per hour.
If you send more emails than allowed for the hour, they'll get queued and send later.

Please?

It's a bug, try to remove emoticons and save.
I will fix in the next version. 

Ok I will update in the next version.

The script already made for 3.4 to 4.0 could be adapted to change the collation in 4.0. I guess it could be done without hard work.

would be really cool if anyone from invision could spend 5 minutes for that.

its not working for me too...... why there is still no script from invision :/

I just tried this on a test installation, but changing the conf_global did not seem to do anything at all. Is that really all we would have to do to start this process?

yes please make a script ...

Please do this

Is it possible to IPS make a script to change that database collation from utf8 to utf8mb4 for those that did not chose this collation on the 3.4 to 4.0 upgrade?