SMTP Connection Refused

[Jawed Nazar Ali]

Hello,

When I am sending mails from my website and I get the following error message:
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Could not connect to SMTP host: mail.sdfpak.org,
port: 25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to
SMTP host: mail.sdfpak.org, port: 25;
nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:695)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:168)
at
javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:227)
at
javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:131)
.
.
.
.
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One thing is worth noting that I can send emails from my local machine using same smtp server after authenticating the server. But SMTP connections are refused on the machine where I have hosted the website.

Any ideas how to solve this problem or what is causing it?


regards,
Jawed Nazar Ali

[Jared Richardson]

You mentioned two different machines. Sounds like your ISP only accepts connections from their customer machines. Your website box is hosted by a different ISP, correct? This type of limitation is set up to foil spammers.

Does your website ISP have a mail server you can use?