connecting with wp-email

Hi!
I’m trying to get wp-email working and having some difficulty. I get the following error:
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to outgoing.verizon.net:25 in /homepages/30/d92633458/htdocs/wp-includes/class-smtp.php on line 105
SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111) Language string failed to load: connect_host

See for yourself at http://www.dykstranet.com. Click on the “|||” at the bottom of a post.
I am able to connect to the smtp server with email clients, so I know my server, username and password are correct. Could it be that this feature is disabled in PHP on my server? Here is php info:
http://dykstranet.com/phpinfo.php
Any ideas would be appreciated.
-Gar