# There are five ways to give the password for the remote IMAP
# server:
#
-# 1. No password at all specified in the config file. If a matching
-# entry is found in ~/.netrc (see netrc (5) for information) the
-# password from the matching entry will be used. Otherwise you
-# will be prompted for the password when OfflineIMAP starts.
+# 1. No password at all specified in the config file. If a matching entry is
+# found in ~/.netrc (see netrc (5) for information) the password from the
+# matching entry will be used. If there is no ~/.netrc file but there is an
+# /etc/netrc file, the password will instead be taken from there. Otherwise
+# you will be prompted for the password when OfflineIMAP starts.
#
# 2. The remote password stored in this file with the remotepass
# option. Example: