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Yes, using their pseudo-transactional campaigns. I'm using it right now on multiple sites. Which makes me wonder why they decided to build on SES, they've already got the functionality there...

http://blog.mailchimp.com/transactional-email-support/



Probably because they were pseudo-transactional.


Copying this from my blog comment answering the same question...

Pseudo-transactional campaigns are very "pseudo". MailChimp campaigns require static predefined content. If you actually wanted to vary the content from recipient to recipient, you need to find a way to stuff the dynamic content into merge fields as you send which can cause latency and concurrency issues.

Also, since pseudo-transactional campaigns uses our sending infrastructure tuned for large bulk mailing, the delivery times are somewhat longer (on the order of minutes) for pseudo-transactional campaigns, vs seconds for STS.




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