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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 <title>Updated design notes on fetchmail</title>
 <link rev="made" href="mailto:matthias.andree@gmx.de" />
 <meta name="description" content="Updated design notes on fetchmail." />
-<meta name="keywords" content="fetchmail, POP, POP2, POP3, IMAP, ETRN, ODMR, remote mail" />
+<meta name="keywords" content="fetchmail, POP3, IMAP, ETRN, ODMR, remote mail" />
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ concepts will have to be applied. Random bits are:</p>
 
 <h2>SMTP forwarding</h2>
 
-<p>Fetchmails multidrop and rewrite options will process addresses
+<p>Fetchmail's multidrop and rewrite options will process addresses
 received from remote sites. Special care must be taken so these
 features cannot be abused to relay mail to foreign sites.</p>
 
@@ -68,16 +68,17 @@ avoided for now.</p>
 <h3>Why we need client-side tracking</h3>
 
 <p>ESR asserted that server-side state were essential and those persons
-repsonsible for removing the LAST command from POP3 deserved to
+responsible for removing the LAST command from POP3 deserved to
 suffer. ESR is right in stating that the POP3 UID tracks which messages
 have been read <em>by this client</em> &ndash; and that is exactly what
 we need to do.</p>
 
-<p>If fetchmail is supposed to retrieve all
-mail from a mailbox reliably, without being disturbed by someone
-occasionally using another client on another host, or a webmailer, or
-similar, then <em>client</em>-side tracking of the state is
-indispensable. This is also needed to match behavior to ETRN and ODMR.</p>
+<p>If fetchmail is supposed to retrieve all mail from a mailbox
+reliably, without being disturbed by someone occasionally using another
+client on another host, or a webmailer, or similar, then
+<em>client</em>-side tracking of the state is indispensable. This is
+also needed to match behavior to ETRN and ODMR or to support read-only
+mailboxes in --keep mode.</p>
 
 <h3>Present and future</h3>