[fetchmail]Fetchmail obsoletes popclient? How do I ...

Please tell me if I'm wrong -- Wherever I look on the internet, people
say that fetchmail obsoletes popclient.

I want to pop messages from a server, and dump the output directly to
file, or stdout, instead of forwarding to the local mta or mda.

I can't find any way to make fetchmail do this for me, and I can't find
a download for popclient anymore.

Should fetchmail do this for me?

Thank you for your help.