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Mandrill is a scalable and affordable email infrastructure servic from MailChimp. In just a few easy steps, you can setup Mandrill to handle all the outgoing emails from your Joomla sites. If you are finding that your emails are landing up in Spam boxes of users,this is one way to quickly & painlessly avoid that.

Mandrill can be setup with Joomla either by installing & configuring a few plugins that are available for this or by Simply setting up Mandrill's SMTP details in your Joomla configuration. If you are using Email Beautifier for Joomla to beautify your emails, i would suggest using the SMTP route. If you are using any plugins, Email Beautifier might not work well.

We ourselves use Mandrill & Email Beautifier together in this way at Techjoomla.

A. Sign up for Mandrill

Head over to http://mandrill.com/ & sign up for a new Account. Mandrill is free to use upto 12000 emails per month.  If you are a paying MailChimp user, then you can get many more free emails per month. See the delails here.

B. Login & Get your SMTP & API Credentials

Once you login to Mandrill, head over the the SMTP & API settings page for your account by navigating to Settings > SMTP & API Credentials. The SMTP password is any active API key for your account, and not the password used to log in to Mandrill. This will give you all the details you need to setup Mandrill with Joomla. Note that you might have to generate a API key on this page if there isnt one already.

C. Configure Joomla SMTP for Mandrill

Login to your Joomla Admin area as a Super Admin. Go to Global Configuration -> Server & go to Mail Settings under that. Setup the email settings as below :

Mailer : SMTP

From Email : The from address the emails should be sent using

From Name : From Name for outgoing emails

SMTP Authentication : Set this to Yes.

SMTP Port :  587

SMTP Username : Same as Your Mandril login email or username

SMTP Password : The API key you generate

SMTP Host : smtp.mandrillapp.com

Thats it ! Once you are done, all your outgoing site emails should be now routed via Mandrill. If you use this method, Email Beautifier will also work. Note that the same method also applies if you want to send you J!MailAlerts email digests via Mandrill. This can better help you track clicks & opens in that case too !

Ahoy There ! 

We are starting a awesome new Blog series which i am sure all you are just going to love ! Aptly Titled "Earn With Joomla" , this series will cover a variety of topics ranging from using the Joomla eco system to earn money , E Commerce, Advertising, Conversion optimisation,tracking etc etc. In shorts lots & lots of ways to help you get more Cash.

Besides General blogs that will introduce you to various Monetization aspects, we shall also be touching upon Joomla extensions & tips & tricks that you are sure to find useful.

Besides our own team, we shall also have guest bloggers & partners pitching in to get your these awesome nuggets of Information . 

So lets get started ! You already know that Techjoomla has a host of products that can help you monetize your website.. Checkout our Presentation on how to monetize your Joomla website from Joomla Day India 2013 ..

A singular story in the Aesop’s Fable series has always captured my imagination, right from my childhood days.

The story goes like -- a peasant had an enchanted goose with a magical ability to lay a single Golden Egg each day. One day the ignorant peasant overcome by greed, ripped open the belly of his goose to get hold of all the eggs at once in a single day. He did not gain anything but lost everything -- his goose was gone and so was the daily production of a golden egg.

Peasant with his Goose

In that vein I would like to ask you , "Are you KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE When Pricing your Products ?” You have to be very conscious when it comes to decide the pricing of your own, beloved, incredible and perfect product developed after a lot of hardship. It costs a million to you, but nil to customers until it's worth them.

Checkout new dashboard for upcoming JBolo 3.0 that will be supporting group chat!