The well-known email marketing platform Mailchimp offers a stand-alone service called Mailchimp Transactional Email. Prior to being rebranded by Mailchimp in 2016, it was known as Mandrill. MailChimp Transactional Email can be used to send order confirmations, password reset requests, and other transactional emails.
Mailchimp Transactional Email allows you to send emails via the SMTP server, which means you can easily integrate it into a third-party application.
In GlockApps, you can create a sending account with the MailChimp Transactional Email’s SMTP settings. The sending account can then be used to configure automatic tests for your transactional emails.
Below are the steps to create a sending account with the MailChimp Transactional Email’s SMTP settings:
In your account, go to Inbox Insight -> Sending Accounts.
Click Create Sending Account and enter the information:
Sending account name: any name that you want to appear in the From field if your emails
From email: your email address
SMTP server: smtp.mandrillapp.com
Port: 25, 587, or 2525
Security protocol: none (works as STARTTLS)
SMTP username: Mailchimp doesn’t use the SMTP username to authenticate your request, but it’s recommended that you use your Mailchimp account’s primary contact email as the SMTP username
SMTP password: any active API key for your account as your SMTP password.
You can find your SMTP credentials on the SMTP & API Info page in your Mailchimp Transactional Email’s account.
After you entered the SMTP settings, configure advanced settings such as a folder to save the proxy tests, custom headers, throttling settings, and the seed list.
When done, click Check & Create.
If the entered SMTP settings are correct, the sending account will be saved and the proxy email address will appear near it. The proxy email address can be used for proxy tests. Also, the sending account can be used for automatic tests for testing of your transactional emails sent by MailChimp on auto-pilot.