mandrill-redirect

Redirect emails declared in Mandrill template data to a single developer's/QA's email. Useful during development and testing.

E.g. Given two recipients jack@gmail.com, jill@gmail.com and a redirect email of test@gmail.com the resulting recipients will be test+0@gmail.com and test+1@gmail.com.

Use

Install via npm install mandrill-redirect

and use:

    var redirect = require('mandrill-redirect');
    redirect(template, "test@gmail.com"); // Returns true/false

rewrites a Mandrill template:

    {
        message:{
            to: ["jack@gmail.com", "jill@gmail.com"],
            merge_vars: [
                {
                    rcpt: "jack@gmail.com",
                    vars: [...]
                },
                {
                    rcpt: "jill@gmail.com",
                    vars: [...]
                }
            ],
            recipient_metadata:[
                {
                    "rcpt": "jack@gmail.com",
                    "values": [...]
                },
                {
                    "rcpt": "jill@gmail.com",
                    "values": [...]
                }
            ]
        }
    }

to:

    {
        message: {
            to: ["redirect+0@gmail.com", "redirect+1@gmail.com"],
            merge_vars: [
                {
                    rcpt: "redirect+0@gmail.com",
                    vars: [...]
                },
                {
                    rcpt: "redirect+1@gmail.com",
                    vars: [...]
                }
            ],
            recipient_metadata:[
                {
                    "rcpt": "redirect+0@gmail.com",
                    "values": [...]
                },
                {
                    "rcpt": "redirect+1@gmail.com",
                    "values": [...]
                }
            ]
        }
    }

Also:

• to is mandatory and must have length
• merge_vars is optional but if provided must match the length of to
• recipient_metadata is optional but if provided must match the length of to
• If no email is given for redirecting then any template manipulation is skipped.
• The return value is true/false indicating success/failure. The template is rewritten in place.