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-COMING SOON
-===========
+Djrill, for Mandrill
+====================
+
+Djrill is an email backend and new message class for Django users that want to take advantage of the Mandrill transactional SMTP 
+service from MailChimp.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Coming soon.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+In ``settings.py``:
+
+1. Add ``djrill`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS``.
+2. Add the following two lines, substituting your own ``MANDRILL_API_KEY``::
+
+    MANDRILL_API_KEY = "brack3t-is-awesome"
+    MANDRILL_API_URL = "http://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0"
+
+3. Override your existing email backend with the following line::
+
+    EMAIL_BACKEND = "djrill.mail.backends.djrill.DjrillBackend"
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Coming soon