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On a 'philosophical' question about Banach envelopes

We show how to construct non-locally convex quasi-Banach spaces X whose dual separates the points of a dense subspace of X but does not separate the points of X. Our examples connect with a question raised by Pietsch (Rev Mat Complut 22(1):209-226, 2009) and shed light into the unexplored class of quasi-Banach spaces with nontrivial dual which do not have sufficiently many functionals to separate the points of the space.