CODEWITHSUNDEEP
jquerymandrill
user1903663
user1903663

Reputation: 1725

Using a mandrill template to send an email with javascript and hiding the email addresses of recipients

I have a template on my mandrill account called "template1", I want to use it to send mail to multiple recipients. It does not work. The mail is sent but the template content is not included. The code is:

//truncated for brevity
var m = new mandrill.Mandrill(my_key');
    var params = {
    "template_name": "template1",
    "template_content": [
        {
            "name": "template1",
            "content": "template1"
        }
    ],
    "message": {
        "from_email":"[email protected]",
        "to": emailObjects,
        "subject": "Sales director job",
        "text": "text in the message"
    }
    };
m.messages.send(params, function(res) {
log(res);
},

As I said the message is sent but the body of the message is the "text" portion at the bottom of the params instead of the template. If I remove that (the params "text" line) there is no body content at all in the email!

The second question is: how can I hide the email addresses of the other people who receive the message? It goes to multiple recipients and all the addresses are visible which is very undesirable!

Thank you in advance for suggestions.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1788

Answers (2)

Daniel Flippance
Daniel Flippance

Reputation: 7932

Part 2, add the default setting in Mandrill Settings > Sending Defaults as described above or override as follows - this example prevents the list of recipients being shown:

var m = new mandrill.Mandrill(my_key');
    var params = {
        "preserve_recipients": false,
        ...
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Richard West
Richard West

Reputation: 2226

You can include cc addresses when sending through SMTP. Whether recipients see each other's email address(es) depends on your account settings and whether you've set the X-MC-PreserveRecipients header.

Set your Mandrill account to preserve the recipients for emails you send by default

  1. Hover over the gear icon and select Sending Options.
  2. Check or uncheck the box labeled Expose The List Of Recipients When Sending To Multiple Addresses. If checked, when you send to multiple recipients, they will be able to see each other's email addresses (useful for Reply All). If unchecked, each recipient will receive an email with just their email address in the to: field.

If you're using the SMTP integration, you can use the SMTP Headers API to set a custom header to preserve the recipients on a per-message basis. Use the X-MC-PreserveRecipients header, and set it to true for your recipients to be able to see other recipient email addresses.

It's not possible to specify "CC" addresses via the API, but your account default option will be applied unless you specify the preserve_recipients parameter: false means recipients won't see other recipient email addresses; true will allow recipients to view and reply-all for all recipients.

For additional information: http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21751312-Can-I-send-to-more-than-one-recipient-at-a-time-

Upvotes: 0

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