"Download later" on mobile. about website

[cassidyjames]

I agree with the email. Like I mentioned in #26, I think Mailchimp is the way to go. I've used it before, it's widely loved, and it's pretty easy.

[cassidyjames]

Caveat: MailChimp is for recurring emails, whereas their product Mandrill is for transactional (one-off) emails. Their API is super simple and we could integrate it on the site with very little hassle.

https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/messages.JSON.html#method-send-template

First 12,000 emails per month are free, then it's like $0.20 or less per thousand emails: http://mandrill.zendesk.com/entries/21693768

For example, 20,000 emails is only $1.60/month.

[cassidyjames]

Ah, we're gonna need a teeny tiny bit of server-side code for this (to send an API call to Mandrill).

[cassidyjames]

If we're using PHP, here're the docs: https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/messages.php.html

I imagine we'll just want to sent a request to the script on our domain with the person's email address? How do we prevent abuse?

[lewisgoddard]

Double-submit a special cookie using a POST form? Should stop most bots and CSRF. Otherwise, the only way is recaptcha or other puzzles.

[lewisgoddard]

To keep the page clean, you could hit an internal API with JavaScript which then calls the mandrill api. I've already stripped down the Mailgun (similar service) API just for password resets, https://github.com/eustasy/browning-a-mailgun-script, so this shouldn't be a major issue.

[lewisgoddard]

ping #1287