Mandrill

Creating the data source

Requirements

  • To generate the API Key you need a Mailchimp Standard or Premium account

Instructions

  1. Log in to your Mandrill account (Mailchimp Transactional) at mandrillapp.com
  2. Navigate to settings, find the API Keys section and click "New API Key"
    1. Mandrill Settings API Keys
  3. Enter a description for your API Key, for example "Kondado", leave the other options unchecked and click "Create API Key"
    1. Mandrill Create API Key
  4. Now copy the "Key" value that will appear
    1. Mandrill Copy API Key
  5. Log in to Kondado, go to the add connectors section and select the Mandrill connector
  6. In the connector, enter a name for your connector in "Name" and paste the value obtained in the previous step in "API Key"
    1. Kondado Mandrill Connector
  7. Click SAVE to start receiving Mandrill data in your Data Warehouse or Data Lake

Pipelines

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Email activity

Replication type: Incremental with update window

Parameters:

  • Read start date (Savepoint): The initial email activity date (savepoint) for the data replication
  • Update window after publication (days): How many days previous to the savepoint the e-mails will still be considered to have their data replicated

Relationships:

Mandrill email activity records with per-message status, metrics, and details.

Campo Tipo

_kdd_rowkey

text

[en] Replication key for that row [generated by Kondado]

message_id

text

[en] Unique message identifier in Mandrill. Use to JOIN with message templates table.

    Message Templates > > message_id

event_date

timestamp

[en] Date of the event

email_address

text

[en] The email address of the recipient

sender

text

[en] The email address of the sender

subject

text

[en] The message's subject line

status

text

[en] Sending status of this message Possible values: "sent", "bounced", or "rejected".

tags

text

[en] list of tags on this message

subaccount

text

[en] Subaccount of this message

opens

int

[en] How many times has this message been opened

clicks

int

[en] How many times has a link been clicked in this message

bounce_detail

text

[en] Additional information about the bounce reason when available.

Message Templates

Replication type: Incremental with update window

Parameters:

  • Update window (days): Number of days to look back for updates
  • Read start date (Savepoint): The initial date for reading message template data

Mandrill messages with template/slug info to enable JOINs with activity table.

Campo Tipo

message_id

text

[en] Unique message identifier in Mandrill

template_slug

text

[en] Template slug used to send the message (if applicable)

email_address

text

[en] The email address of the recipient

subject

text

[en] The message subject line

sender

text

[en] The email address of the sender

status

text

[en] Sending status of this message

event_timestamp

timestamp

[en] Date and time of the event

tags

text

[en] List of tags on this message, comma-separated

opens

int

[en] How many times this message has been opened

clicks

int

[en] How many times a link has been clicked

Notes

  • Part of this documentation was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. We recommend verifying critical information