Failed to connect to SMTP / socket error

[nickdrums]

Hi - trying to use Pear Mail for the first time, so it's possible I'm doing something silly ...

Every time I try to send an email I get the following error code :

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

The php code I am using is here:

require_once("Mail.php");

$recipients = 'nick@cole2.com';

$headers['From'] = 'nick@drumsense.com';
$headers['To'] = 'nick@cole2.com';
$headers['Subject'] = 'Test message';

$body = 'Test message';

$params['host'] = 'smtpauth.dsl.pipex.com';
$params['port'] = '25';
$params['auth'] = true;
$params['username'] = '*** user ***';
$params['password'] = '*** pass ***';

// 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());}

I can't seem to find any reference source to help me understand the -1 error code.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Nick.

[scilskitsios]

have you tried sending this without specifying a smtp server or is it necessary to use the smtp server you have mentioned.

My code looks like this:

$crlf = "\n";
$subject = "SUBJECT";
$hdrs = array(
'From' => 'do_not_reply@MYDOMAIN.COM',
'Subject' => $subject
'Reply-To' => 'webmaster@MYDOMAIN.COM'
);
$mail = new Mail_mime($crlf);
$mail->setTXTBody($emailText);
$mail->setHTMLBody($emailHtml);
$body = $mail->get();
$hdrs = $mail->headers($hdrs);
$mail =& Mail::factory('mail');
$mail->send($emailToSendTo, $hdrs, $body);

[nickdrums]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, maybe that got lost in the detail - the whole point of this is that I am trying to use PEAR Mail as an alternative to PHP mail() as the former supports SMTP as a backend, as my (legitimate) volume emails are getting spammed out by Hotmail etc. when I use sendmail.