Hi del,
Search the forums and you will find that this has come up many, many times.
However, I'm curious as to why Stephen says his multipop contrib does not work with cable modems. I personally prefer to use the multipop contrib from Vincent Filali but cannot see how fetchmail should care if your connection is dial up modem or cable or ADSL or anything. I used to use Vincent's multipop on cable long time ago (don't need to anymore) but still use it with some installations on ADSL with no problems.
Kelvin