Hello Gerhard.

> it seems to be that my ISP's mail server is messing with the headers,
> and since the "reply-to" is the same as the account address, it leaves
> it out. ??

  Maybe.
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  Well, here's my present problem.  A few months back, easily many
enough so that I a} can't recall which vendor, b} He wouldn't want to
know and c} The boards are no longer current (i.e., at least 2 months),
I bought at the markets a nice "simple" motherboard - Socket 7, IBM
6x86MX/ PR233 (Must mean "public relations", or the medical term,
because it's actually 66MHz x 3) of the "all-in-one" variety = on-board
SVGA eats 4M of system RAM, integrated sound as well as HD, FD, 2S, P,
G, PS/2 (and the mis-labelling of the PS/2 header had me on the run
awhile).

  Well, it set up OK on '95 OSR2 - sort of.  Crashed a few time during
install but hey, that's usual isn't it?  What got me in the longer term
was that a} it crashes at least once a day in an 8-hour shift, b} often
in the middle of a consultation (oh yes, this was for my surgery!) or
c} quite often at very close to 17:30!

  Well, I tried all the tricks.  Disable caches, swap RAM modules, then
got wild and re-setup WIN95.  That put me out for a week searching the
M$ help database for the place where it says if you re-install with a
network present, it disables your logon to M$ networking by an obscure
registry entry you have to manually kill.  Duh!

  No way, it is a dud mother.  OK, knew I had to do something so I
bought a second hand Octek Rhino 20 motherboard on my next visit to the
markets, no warranty but "supposed" to work.  This is an ATX format;
though it has the "old" AT power socket as well as the ATX, its edge
connectors require the ATX case so I bought a new one of those.
(Concept: why buy old style stuff?)

  Set it up carefully with the processor and some memory, turned on and
listened for the "no video" beeps.  No beeps!  However, the keyboard
lights showed it had initialized.  Seems its speaker driver is shot and
for that matter, the power button doesn't work either.  It comes on
with mains applied, and when I actually fitted video card, disks and
network card, it booted W95, upon shutdown from which the power supply
shuts off, but still doesn't come back on to the front panel button.

  I can however live with that.

  Well, I let it go through W95's little businesses about figuring out
the video card is different, the PCI bridge is different etc., and got
almost as far as installing the sound card (which doesn't PNP) but now
it hangs halfway from DOS to Windoze.  Have to reset it, then it comes
up in Safe mode.  Safe mode works fine, but is of course, useless.  Next
"proper" boot it hangs.

  Went through the rigmarole again - played with caches, re-setup W95
(I've now forgotten the bodgie entries in Registry, so of course, the
network doesn't work at all now).  Grrrr!  If *only* my script-writing
app would run under Linux, I'd be over in a flash!

  Next try is a fresh drive with W98, which is why all the discussion on
O/S is so terribly ironic.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.