title: SwiftMail SMTP Error
body: <p>I am trying to use the standard Swiftmail SMTP connection for Mandrill, which is located here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21746308-Sending-via-SMTP-in-various-programming-languages" rel="nofollow">http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21746308-Sending-via-SMTP-in-various-programming-languages</a></p>
  
  <p>I am getting a:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Swift_TransportException' with message 'Connection could not be established with host smtp.mandrillapp.com [Connection refused #111]' in /home/content/15/10121515/html/includes/classes/Swift/Transport/StreamBuffer.php:259 Stack trace: #0 /home/content/15/10121515/html/includes/classes/Swift/Transport/StreamBuffer.php(64): Swift_Transport_StreamBuffer-&gt;_establishSocketConnection() #1 /home/content/15/10121515/html/includes/classes/Swift/Transport/AbstractSmtpTransport.php(115): Swift_Transport_StreamBuffer-&gt;initialize(Array) #2 /home/content/15/10121515/html/includes/classes/Swift/Mailer.php(80): Swift_Transport_AbstractSmtpTransport-&gt;start() #3 /home/content/15/10121515/html/includes/mail.php(62): Swift_Mailer-&gt;send(Object(Swift_Message), Array) #4 {main} thrown in /home/content/15/10121515/html/includes/classes/Swift/Transport/StreamBuffer.php on line 259
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  <p>Any ideas why?</p>