Setting up email with GoDaddy
 

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...