Maybe nothing, the host might be down.  Try to ping the host and then try telneting into ports 25 and 110.  If these are successful then checkout the firewall setting to ensure you are not blocking WinPMail.  I generally try running a session log when this happens to see exactly what is going on.

I'm sorry if this has come up before but I cannot find the question

in FAQ's. Whenever I try to download or send an email I get the Red

Stop sign with the message "Pegasus Mail cannot connect to the host

specified"

What am I doing wrong?