[jeffbr13]

Sure, but this doesn't actually send the emails. That's what you plug in Mandrill, SendGrid, SES, or <SMTP-provider of choice> for.

MailChimp charge crazy money for large numbers of subscribers. If your business actually makes money on direct-marketing, that's fine, but their pricing stings if you want your marketing team to manage large lists with only occasional informational emails. And since MailChimp will give you their deliverability for 25,000 emails for $20 on Mandrill, it seems like a win-win for that use-case.

I, for one, can't wait to try this out over the weekend.

[jakobegger]

Mailchimp also has pay-as-you-go pricing where you pay per email for lists where you only email subscribers occasionally. I think its around 2c per email (depends on how much credit you purchase at once)