Mandrill forward to a friend - mandrill

How do I forward a page to a Friend in Mandrill API?
I have generated the newsletter html format to send mail through Mandrill and it is properly sent. But I want to forward a friend to in my newsletter html file.
Please help me.

Mandrill doesn't offer that feature. You can read more here
From their documentation:
The MailChimp |FORWARD| merge tag generates a link to an online form
where recipients can share your email with others. Since Mandrill
emails are generated and tracked individually, a web version isn't
provided automatically. To mimic the Forward to a Friend option in
Mandrill, you could create your own online version of the email, host
it on your website, and then give your recipients a way to share that
online version with friends (through a direct link or an online form).
Then you could track when people fill out the form or when they click
the link for the shared email.

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gmail newsletter/promotion tag?

I am trying to get promotional and newsletter email messages using Gmail API. Currently, I am requesting the Gmail API based on sender, but it is not feasible. Is there a way to identify an email message as promotions or newsletters, when getting messages using Gmail API?
Is there a meta tag for newsletters or promotional messages?
Any help regarding this will be appreciated.
Thank you!
J.
The tag you mentioned in the question is called label in Gmail API. You can find a list of default labels in the documentation:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/labels
I guess you are interested in CATEGORY_PROMOTIONS. In that case, you should pass it as a query param called labelIds[] of the request, that lists user's messages: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/messages/list

Get zoho emails in my rails application

I am trying to fetch emails received and sent from zoho account.
I want to trace all the emails coming to me in outlook or I am sending from outlook.
I have seen zohoCRM, rubyzoho but not able to get things done.
Any suggestions on this.
What you are looking for is a way to build a simple email client with ruby.
There is a simple Ruby Mail library which can get the work done for you. For quick reference, you can check the section "Getting email from a POP server"
Zoho supports POP Access. You should be able to get the access details from there and use it.
The Ruby mail library also support IMAP access and so does Zoho.

Can I send attachments to a Zendesk ticket via email?

According to the Zendesk documentation:
Receiving attachments from customers
Zendesk accepts attachments from users sent in via the API, email and web form channels in your Help Center.
However, I can't find any information in the documentation to accomplish this.
I'm not sure I fully understood the question, but you can just attach your document to the email you are sending in to update the ticket.

Features of Mandrill API

I am new to Mandrill and its integration. Can anyone help me to figure out the advantages of using Mandrill? What can be done using Mandrill other than sending messages and tracking them?
Mandrill has many uses. You might have seen those on their website itself. Actually its a Mail Transaporter like PHP mailer, but it uses their own server for sending mails.
As said on their website,
Mandrill runs on a globally distributed infrastructure that can
deliver emails in milliseconds.
This is because when you send a mail through their SMTP or send.json (API) method, the send mail possibly see the fastest path algorithm to deliver a mail. That's why it take milliseconds to deliver. They have ~7 different mail servers worldwide for this.
Major Features,
Sending mails fastly than our own server using PHP Mailer.
Sending mails via pre-designed templates which can be reusable by the merge vars we're using.
Support multiple language platforms like, cURL, JSON, Python, PHP, Ruby, Nodejs, Dart and also their depending frameworks.
It tracks clicks from the mail we sent. For Ex: each and every url link in our sent mails is redirected only after tracking from mandrillapp site. This enables mandrill to track the no of opens in a mail and track analytics.
Through mandrill we can construct our own mail sending application or integrate into an existing application.
It's mostly used for Transactional Messages like functions like welcome mail, forgot password, cart details and etc.
It can be integrated into other shopping cart web applications.
Their api call works on even in the developer environment.
Lesser spam.
Verified domain options like DKIM and SPF settings. This enables the mails to identified by major email providers like gmail, google, etc.
It can be used as SMTP version and can be integrated into major SMTP applications.
Reports: Demographics of email send, Compare status, Which url in our mails has been clicked and no of counts.
Setup rule for delivering emails.
A/B testing, custom SMTP headers, Inbound domains and etc.
There are many other features in developer perspective. If you mention in which platform you're trying to use mandrill addditional details can be provide.
Hope this might help you.
To name a few, You can
1) use templates to do A/B testing ( which allow you to experiment with different templates, and end up with something which is effective).
2) use Embedded images , which will reduce the chance that your emails will end up in spam.
Hope this helps,

Notification Emails Using Mailchimp

I am new to mailing with webapps. I looked around and found Sendgrid and Mailchimp. I can see that sendgrid's developer section has a simple smtp url that i should be able to use simply. However i don't find any such thing on Mailchimp. I am wondering how I can use mailchimp to send notifications like User registration or confirmation notification (not necessarily large number of emails blasted altogether but individual notification emails). Right now my application is set to use sendmail in rails.
Can anyone give me clues as to how I can use Mailchimp as the service for sending notification like emails and not mass emails. So far it seems like mailchimp may be more for just mass emails, is that correct?
Thanks
Sendgrid is a simple SMTP provider and relay. Mailchimp is more designed for email marketing using their toolchain. I would reccomend that you stick with sendgrid for simple notification messages but use Mailchimp for email campaigns and complex notifications.
So yes you initial guess is correct that it the two services are to be used for different things. However if you really want to use Mailchimp for email notificatons I would be more than happy to dig up some information for you.

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