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John Smith <yoursurrogategod@gmail.com> writes:
> Connection refused to localhost 127.0.0.1:25
> What does AWS need in order to send out an e-mail?  I'm on a Manjaro
> Linux machine.

You have to configure that address to an actual SMTP server instead of
localhost.  Amazon has several email services available.  The "simple"
one is

  https://aws.amazon.com/ses/

You want the SMTP interface:

  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-email-smtp.html