Question
Using Eudora how can I download all my email from the server?
Answer
Clients with a leave mail on server option generally use the POP3 UIDL (Unique IDentification Listing) command. Most POP3 commands identify specific messages by their ordinal number on the mail server. This creates a problem for a client intending to leave messages on the server, since these message numbers may change from one connection to the server to another. For example if a mailbox contains five messages at last connect, and a different client then deletes message #3, the next connecting user will find the last two messages' numbers decremented by one. UIDL provides a mechanism to avoid these numbering issues. The server assigns a string of characters as a permanent and unique ID for the message. When a POP3-compatible e-mail client connects to the server, it can use the UIDL command to get the current mapping from these message IDs to the ordinal message numbers. The client can then use this mapping to determine which messages it has yet to download, which saves time when downloading. IMAP has a similar mechanism, using a 32-bit UID (Unique IDentifier) that is required to be strictly ascending. The advantage of the numeric UID is with large mailboxes; a client can request just the UIDs greater than its previously stored "highest UID". In POP, the client must fetch the entire UIDL map.
— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)