Time Out Doesnt Work

The email validation keeps stalling. For example using: test@ltolhurst.orangehome.co.uk it connects to the remote server but doesnt send any data or receive any and also doesnt time out.

I have tried additional timeouts: set_time_limit(10); and added stream_set_timeout($connection,5,0); to the code but nothing makes it timeout.

There are two timeout variables: timeout for connections and data_timeout for receiveing and sending data. If it connects, you need to set the data_timeout variable to make it fail when the server takes too long to respond.

I set data_timeout variable to 1 or 100. Same thing, if an email server stalled the connection no timeout is received so the script stop.

The data_timeout variable is just for setting the timeout for sending and receiving data.

Use the timeout class variable to set the connection timeout.