Zone Alarm may be blocking the connection.  I replaced Zone Alarm with Comodo at home because Zone Alarm was blocking access even though it appeared to be configured correctly.  I don't recall ever being able to successfully temporarily disable Zone Alarm for testing.  It wasn't until I uninstalled it that I confirmed it as the problem.  This goes back a couple of years so may not be pertinent to the current version but there may be a connection if you've always had ZA and have never been able to get an email client to work.

Hi there,

I just installed the pegasus, even though I was warned it would be a tough one to set up. 

I have a hotmail account, , which is a little different and thus, makes it difficult for me to make the pop3 address work. 

Now, before that: I have the avast free, it detects the pegasus pop3 and probably doesn't stop it. I also use zone alarm and completely allowed pegasus to do as it pleases. 

For incoming, I've got: server: pop3.live.com,  port: 995, SSL. 

When I try to download e-mail, I get:

POP3 network or protocol error: Showing communication between pegasus and the server appears at the foot of this window. And below: Trace showing end of transaction - << No trace information available >> 

 I assume the error is in my pop3 profile -> username@pop3.com. See, this is university mail and to log in, it requires the entire address  me@myuniversity.com. This and only this is my username. Just 'me' doesn't work. 

Any suggestions? 

OK, I begin to get the whole thing. Still doesn't work, though. 

OK, this is annoying me now.

I followed these step by step: 

(a) -POP3-

  Server host name: pop3.live.com
  User name: <your_user_name>@hotmail.com
  Password: <your_password>
  Server TCP/IP port: 995
  SSL/TLS: via direct SSL connect
  Enable server certificate fingerprint tracking: checked

(b) - SMTP via SSL -

  Server host name: smtp.live.com
  Server TCP/IP port: 465
  SSL/TLS: via direct ssl connection
  Enable server certificate fingerprint tracking: unchecked
  SMTP Authentication: Login to the SMTP server using POP3
  username/password (the Hotmail-POP3-definition has been chosen)
 

Everything should be fine! For a moment there, I thought it was the firewall or antivirus blocking. When I switched them off, the same error occured again and nothing happened. 

For the record... NO email client has worked on any pc or OS of mine.