Connection Refused using PEAR Mail

[nickdrums]

Hi all,

Trying to use PEAR Mail class to send emails via my ISP's SMTP server, but each time I get the following error:

Failed to connect to smtp.dsl.pipex.com:25 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Connection refused (code: -1, response: )]

Here is the code I am using:

require_once("Mail.php");

$recipients = '[e-mail]';

$headers['From'] = '[e-mail]';
$headers['To'] = '[e-mail]';
$headers['Subject'] = 'Test message';

$body = 'Test message';

$params['host'] = "smtp.dsl.pipex.com";
$params['port'] = 25;
$params['auth'] = false;
$params['debug'] = false;
$params['username'] = "";
$params['password'] = "";

// Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method
$mail_object = Mail::factory('smtp',$params);

$send = $mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($send)) {
print($send->getMessage());
} else {
echo("Email sent successfully");
}

Really appreciate any suggestions on how to avoid this, or at least move forwards!!

Nick.

[nickdrums]

As an addendum, I've since tried the following from my windows machine here:

c:> telnet
telnet> open smtp.dsl.pipex.com 25 which elicits the following response:

220 blaster.systems.pipex.net ESMTP Postfix

Which suggests to me that the server does not fundamentally object to contact via port 25 ...

Help! Nick...