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.I fetchmail
assumes will carry a copy of the mail's envelope address. Normally
this is `X-Envelope-To' but as this header is not standard, practice
-varies. See the discussion of multidrop address handling below.
+varies. See the discussion of multidrop address handling below. Note:
+do \fInot\fR say `envelope "Received"'; this is not necessary as fetchmail
+will try to parse Received lines if `envelope' is not specified (unless
+you explicitly disable Received parsing with `no envelope').
.SH USER AUTHENTICATION
Every mode except ETRN requires authentication of the client.