Using Mandrill for your Ghost Blog

Using Mandrill's excellent email sending service with a self-hosted Ghost blog is really quite simple.

First, edit the config.js file in the root of your Ghost folder. In the section under production, you'll see the empty mail configuration:

mail: {},  

Change it to this:

mail: {  
    transport: 'SMTP',
    options: {
        host: 'smtp.mandrillapp.com',
        service: 'Mandrill',
        port: 587,
        auth: {
            user: 'your mandril email',
            pass: 'your mandril api key'
        }
    }
},

Now get your API key information from your Mandrill settings. You'll have to create a new API key if you haven't done so already.

Upload the new config to your server and don't forget to restart your Ghost app's service when finished.

service ghost restart