Sending Emails through Mandrill

I havent used email providers before and thinking of using Mandrill for EasySocial's transactional emails for my new production site. Since I am new to this, can you tell me how do I set-up EasySocial to use Mandrill when sending emails? From what I read, I can set up Mandrill's SMTP connection in Joomla's mail setting, does EasySocial use these Joomla's mail setting or how does it work?