Setting up email with GoDaddy

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I've been looking all over this forum and Google trying to find my exact issue, and I'm just not finding it. I'm sure it exists, but being unable to find it, I wanted to start a new thread.

Instead of using the PHP mail() function (because we are limited to 800 emails, and the forum I support has a few thousand members), we wanted to use the GoDaddy servers. Unfortunately, I can't even get a connection going.

I put in the following information, under vBulletin Options > Email Options in the Admin Panel:

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SMTP Email: Set to "YES"

SMTP Host: smtpout.secureserver.net

SMTP Port: 25

SMTP Username: webmaster@#######.com

SMTP Password: #######
(account is valid - I've used it, so I know it works)

SMTP Secure Connection: none
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When I set this up, and test it under Maintenance > Diagnostics > Email, I put in a good email address, push Send, and get the following error:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to tcp://smtpout.secureserver.net:25 (Connection refused) in [path]/includes/class_mail.php on line 641

Warning: Unable to connect to SMTP server in [path]/includes/class_mail.php on line 607


So it's not even making a connection. So my questions are as follows:

1) Did I miss something in setting this up?

2) If not, what specifically can I talk to GoDaddy about so that I won't get that dreaded, "It's a problem with your software, so we can't support your issue - You'll have to talk to vBulletin"?

Any help that anyone can provide, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your attention in this matter... __DEFINE_LIKE_SHARE__