[Mailman-Users] failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')

[Andrei]

I don't know how to resolve this. Mailman is running.
Everything seems OK but when I try to send an email to the list I see
the following error messages and message is never gets sent (by
mailman)

tail -f /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure
Error  Aug 31 16:11:17 2009 (15875) delivery to
enews-owner at lists.myFQD.org failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection
refused')

netstat -na | grep 25 (IP's are obfuscated)
tcp        0      0 74.125.127.1:25           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      1 74.125.127.1:50036        74.125.47.121:143       SYN_SENT

telnet lists.myFQD.org 25
Trying 74.125.127.1...
Connected to 74.125.127.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 lists.myFQD.org ESMTP Exim 4.69 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:50 -0700