Fatal: The postfix mail server is not running

After smoothly running with no changes for literally years, the Postfix process on my OS X 10.5.8 XServe refuses to run. In the system log file I see:
Jul 14 14:26:04 nanalytics com.apple.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master[80311]): Exited: Terminated
Jul 14 14:26:04 nanalytics postfix/postfix-script[80489]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
However, I'm unable to determine exactly what the problem is. There's no additional information in the log files that I've been able to find. Any suggestions as to how I should go about troubleshooting this? I've spent most of the day so far with nothing to show for it...

Some problem here.
Any solutions?
Kind regards,
Robert.

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