Why are my followups not being sent???? Ack!!

[crystal]

Logged on today to add some followups only to see that last night's are still stuck there.  When i try to resume i get this error:

Connecting to SMTP server...
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:25 in /home/icrystal/public_html/crystal/mail/admin.php on line 966
Server not found!
Failed.

Check your SMTP settings!
Your message has been saved for later.
 

I haven't changed anything so what's going on??  Monday's went fine, why the sudden issue now?  

TIA

[DW]

Hi Crystal,

This type of issue is normally related to web host services being down temporarily.  Has the problem since resolved itself?

Regards

[DW]

I had members asking me where their emails were so I posted the issue at my example.com forum.  This is what she advised me to do:
 
 Usually its a password. If that doesn't work uncheck SMTP Server and check Internal Sendmail and save.
 
So, I unchecked SMTP and off went my emails.  
She went on to say that that is harder on you so if you can tell me what else i need to do i'll switch it back  Here is the original error i got:
 
 Connecting to SMTP server...
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:25 in /home/example/public_html/crystal/mail/admin.php on line 966
Server not found!
Failed.

Check your SMTP settings!
Your message has been saved for later.
 
When i checked the settings it said username and pass not needed.  Should i add them would that help?  I don't know what they are anymore though...

The error clearly indicates that the SMTP server would not accept the connection and reinforces my first suggestion.  I do not believe this is password related and I do not believe you need to change your authorization settings.  I suspect the server will 'return' shortly, if it hasn't already.

Regards, DW