fetchmail

[BG Lim <b.lim6@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au>]

I have a dialup connection to my ISP. On the Windows side of things, I use
Eudora to download my mail. I gather that on Linux, the standard is
Fetchmail. I've read through the man page; is there an option to set so
that fetchmaiil will delete messages after a certain number of days, like
in Eudora?

And what exactly is UIDL? Does it allow me to control what messages is
download to my computer according to what is already download, instead of
what is marked as new on the server? This would be very handy, because I
read mail from several machines.

BG