mandrill

What it is and what it does

Mandrill was a Python SDK for the Mandrill email service, providing both a programmatic API client and command-line tools for sending and managing transactional emails. The package wraps Mandrill's REST API behind a Python interface, allowing developers to authenticate with an API key and call methods like users.ping() or send operations. It depends on requests for HTTP communication and docopt for CLI argument parsing.

The package is now deprecated and officially replaced by mailchimp-transactional. It has received no maintenance since April 2021 and is marked as inactive. While it carries no known security vulnerabilities, its abandonment means no bug fixes, feature updates, or support for API changes will be provided. New projects should use mailchimp-transactional instead; this package should only be considered for legacy systems already locked into Mandrill that cannot migrate.

Use it for:

• Maintaining legacy Python applications that already depend on this SDK and cannot immediately migrate to mailchimp-transactional.
• Testing or reverse-engineering old Mandrill integrations to understand how they were built before migration.
• Running deprecated internal tools or scripts that were built around the Mandrill API client interface.
• Development environments where Mandrill service access is still required but migration is deferred.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Mandrill is a deprecated Python API client and CLI tool for sending emails through the Mandrill email service platform, now replaced by mailchimp-transactional.

No. This package is explicitly deprecated and abandoned. Do not install it for new projects—use mailchimp-transactional instead. Only consider it if you are maintaining legacy code that already depends on it and cannot be refactored. Even then, plan a migration path, as the underlying Mandrill service may have changed or been sunset since the SDK's last update in 2021.

Install

mandrill on PyPI

pip install mandrill

uv add mandrill

poetry add mandrill

Installing mandrill

Before you install

Installation is straightforward with only two lightweight runtime dependencies (requests and docopt), but the package has been abandoned since 2021 with no maintenance activity for 1961 days. The project is explicitly deprecated and superseded by mailchimp-transactional.

License in practice

Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), which allows broad use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—but this permissiveness is moot given the package's deprecated status and lack of maintenance.

Quickstart

pip install mandrill

import mandrill
m = mandrill.Mandrill('YOUR_API_KEY')
print(m.users.ping())

Mandrill service credentials (API key) required; package is deprecated and no longer actively supported by Mailchimp.

Verify before relying

• Whether Mandrill email service itself remains operational or has been fully sunset by Mailchimp.
• Compatibility of this SDK with current Mandrill API endpoints and authentication methods.
• Whether existing Mandrill accounts can still authenticate or if migration to mailchimp-transactional is mandatory.

Package facts

Evidence: mandrill-1.0.60-py2-none-any.whl

Keywords: mandrill, email, api

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