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Genc Kastrati 86 posts 401 karma points

Oct 19, 2016 @ 08:19

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Using Mandrill and Umbraco as a Service for SMTP

Greetings everyone. We have been using Mandrill by MailChimp for sending out transactional e-mails for a few years now and it has worked great.

Am wondering if anyone has managed to use Mandrill on Umbraco as a Service? So far it has not been working for me.

MailChimp recently made some restrictions on how Mandrill can be used which we managed to get it to work on our servers (one had to add DKIM and SPF settings to the server).

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Sebastiaan Janssen 5060 posts 15522 karma points MVP admin hq

Oct 19, 2016 @ 08:27

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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't those DNS settings you need to add to the domain names you choose to attach to your site? That's not something the server should need to worry about.

Found some documentation for that here: https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205582267-About-SPF-and-DKIM

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Genc Kastrati 86 posts 401 karma points

Oct 19, 2016 @ 08:31

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Indeed. And we've done it for our current site (adding the settings to our DNS), and it works. Am wondering if anyone has done it using UAAS till now.

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Sebastiaan Janssen 5060 posts 15522 karma points MVP admin hq

Oct 19, 2016 @ 08:37

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Haven't heard of anyone using Mandrill yet on UaaS but it should be no problem, as long as you update the required DNS settings for your domain.

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Genc Kastrati 86 posts 401 karma points

Oct 19, 2016 @ 08:40

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Thank you! I've added the settings and let's see when we go live. Our DNS has the required settings but of course it isn't pointing yet to UAAS. So I cannot really test. Will update this topic when I have more information.

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Sebastiaan Janssen 5060 posts 15522 karma points MVP admin hq

Oct 19, 2016 @ 08:59

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Might be a bit late to only be able to test this once you go live. Both Sendgrid and Postmark have great free options to fall back on if it doesn't work.. I would recommend coming prepared to change your SMTP settings if Mandrill doesn't work! :-)

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Genc Kastrati 86 posts 401 karma points

Oct 19, 2016 @ 09:01

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Good point. I will look at that. Have used Postmark in the past.

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Genc Kastrati 86 posts 401 karma points

Oct 19, 2016 @ 12:03
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It actually worked well. Managed to have the forgotten password function as intended.

Here are the modifications to the "web.config" file:
```
<system.net>
     <mailSettings>
          <smtp from="[email protected]">
               <network host="smtp.mandrillapp.com" port="587" userName="{hidden}" password="{also-hidden}" />
          </smtp>
     </mailSettings>
</system.net>
```
And the modification made to "umbracoSetting.config":
```
<allowPasswordReset>true</allowPasswordReset>
```
Thank you for all your help! Genc
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