Both the attempt to send and then the POP collection failed after about 20 seconds - despite the Pegasus timouts being longer.

My attempts to connect to mail.cyberglobe.net via telnet produced varying results suggesting they either have a capacity problem or they are using software that limits the connection frequency from one IP address.

Since you say it "takes several attempts" but eventually works, my advice is to ask your mail provider if there are any limits on downloading/sending.

The following problem has recently surfaced:

 It takes several attempts to download my e-mail. When I click on the  "Check POP3 For New Mail" button I usyally get the following error message:

15: Peer connect failure (the host has refused the connection). It then takes several attempts to finally get the download to work.

 The same thing happens when I try to send mail.

[quote user="sirob"]It takes several attempts to download my e-mail. When I click on the  "Check POP3 For New Mail" button I usyally get the following error message:

15: Peer connect failure (the host has refused the connection). It then takes several attempts to finally get the download to work.

 The same thing happens when I try to send mail.[/quote]

Initially, go to Tools / Internet options and on the General tab check 'Create Internet session logs' box. This will create log files in your home directory called 'TCPnnnn.WPM' (where nnnn is a number).

After getting the error, examine the log that corresponds to the session and see if there is more information available.  If necessary post the relevent output here, BUT make sure any username and passwords are removed before posting!

--- Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:56:06 ---
Connect to 'mail.cyberglobe.net' port 25, timeout 1200.
10:56:28.140 15: Peer connect failure (the host has refused the connection).

 --- Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:10:59 ---
Connect to 'mail.cyberglobe.net' port 110, timeout 2400.
12:11:20.625 15: Peer connect failure (the host has refused the connection).