Mailchimp integration with digests

[epicfaace]

Problem: Need to send out a push notification whenever an email is sent via mailchimp.

1. My proposal -- create a dummy email addresses and add them to the appropriate hook:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Then use AWS SES and lambda functions so that when an email is sent to these addresses, it can parse out the mailchimp URL / titles / etc. and then call the appropriate Wordpress REST API to send out the push notifications.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-receive-and-process-incoming-email-with-amazon-ses/

Is this too complicated? What do you think @hesyifei ?

2. Alternatively, we could force editors to send out all emails through Wordpress itself and then Wordpress can call the Mailchimp API to send out the emails.

• Benefits:
  • editors have a simpler UI; don't have to deal with all the email lists on mailchimp which is kind of confusing
  • simpler solution than the above
  • extensible if we want to move away from mailchimp

I'm actually leaning towards 2) now after typing this all out.

[hesyifei]

I definitely think 2 is better. We should look into the MailChimp API.