Installing tiger has messed up my postfix settings

A long time ago I downloaded postfix and set it up to smtp emails from a domain where I do not have any other outgoing mail server. This was under 10.2.8, which doesn't include postfix as part of the OS.
Since I installed 10.4.3, I can't send mail from these accounts, which I assume is because tiger has overwritten my postfix installation.
Anyone help me out how to sort this out. Its so long since I did this I really can't remember how I got it working.

May I ask what editor you used? The only thing I can think of is that it might have introduced Mac-type line endings instead of unix ones. It is pretty easy to fix. If you used vim or pine or emacs or some unix type editor, I doubt that is what happened. If it is textedit, or some other Mac-ish editor, it MIGHT be what happened, but it is pretty much a blind shot in the quail field.
You see some ^M in the file if you display hidden characters or more the file or vi the file.
If it does happen to be mac line endings, it is pretty easy to fix, so don't worry (yet). You can issue
sudo perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r/\n/g' <filename>
That changes them to unix line endings if they are in there, and creates a backup of the original file with a .bak suffix (which you can later discard if you are comfortable with the changes.
If that is not what happened, I am stumped.

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+" . . . but not the contents of other accounts on my Mac's HD (the usual red 'no access' symbol)"+
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