Deploying Keystone on Heroku without Mandrill

[val-samonte]

I used the Deploy to Heroku button found in this repo. I was redirected to Heroku's Dashboard with KeystoneJS Starter. However, I cannot proceed because I cannot remove the Mandrill add-on on the process (because, you know, I just want to try this out for free).

I know I can just manually set up KeystoneJS to Heroku and removing Mandrill dependency. However it would be so convenient if Mandrill was just an optional add-on with the KeystoneJS starter.

[JedWatson]

@val-samonte I didn't realise Mandrill had removed their free tier... I'll update this repo without email so it can be installed for free.

[nonfungibletunji]

i have done a little research, and would like to contribute. Which email service would you like to include in the options for keystone.js ( sendemail, mailgun, postmark, cloudmailin, etc ) as they all have free/starter tiers for heroku.

[JedWatson]

@stunjiturner thanks! that would be fantastic. have a look at keystonejs/keystone#250 - in terms of picking up the discussion on support for various mail providers, that's probably the best place to discuss it. Nodemailer seems to have good support for most of the services, which if we implemented it would let us then offer the choice to set up in the generator and pick one for this repo.

It's been pointed out that this is actually a pretty big opportunity for whichever service is implemented in terms of customer acquisition, and unfortunately we've had no support (or acknowledgement) from Mailchimp despite having included first-class support for Mandrill since day 1.

So I'd be minded to take into account how community-friendly each of the services is, in terms of making the decision about the default option (including pricing, features, and willingness to support us in turn). It would be a shame to go through this again.

Definitely worth looking into, and some discussions. In the meantime let's deal with core integration in Keystone :)

[val-samonte]

Hi @JedWatson, thank you for the quick response! I saw the changes and the Mandrill was remove. However just to inform you, it still keeps asking for payment information. Heroku's bug, maybe?

[JedWatson]

Yeah, that shouldn't be happening. I'll look into it...

[SamEBae]

It is asking for payment on mine as well