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Hi boomba, Thanks for your reply. Their API use cURL and Webservices which is very slow compared to using sockets. The code i posted is part from PhpMailer library, suddenly stopped working in my hosting after long time of working well. BTW my php version is 5.2.17 if anyone want to know.

Hello, Diego here. I hope you guys can help me with this one. If i run the code below in my hosting space: <?php $errno = 0; $errstr = ''; $socket_context = stream_context_create(); $smtp_conn = stream_socket_client( "smtp.mandrillapp.com:587", $errno, $errstr, 10, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $socket_context ); while (is_resource($smtp_conn) && !feof($smtp_conn)) { $str = fgets($smtp_conn, 515); echo $str; // If 4th character is a space, we are done reading, break the loop, micro-optimisation over strlen if ((isset($str[3]) and $str[3] == ' ')) break; } I get this: 220-server.dhdinc.com ESMTP Exim 4.80 #2 Wed, 06 May 2015 14:06:16 -0500 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail. As you can see this function is ignoring remote_host parameter completely and uses server.dhdinc.com instead of smtp.mandrillapp.com. How this can be? Any ideas? Thanks.