Mail and Postfix

Hello Everyone,
My brother for some reason was playing around with his mac, (trying to create a mail server ect ect ect)..
anyways, he screwed around with the postfix config and is having problems sending email..
Is there a way to reset the postfix setting or is he in bad shape?
MAV

I did a little with postfix back on Tiger where it wasn't enabled by default.   But it was only to configure it to fake the sender domain to use something other than my ISP's.  I was pleasantly surprised postfix was already enabled in Snow Leopard (never used Leopard) and didn't have to touch it.
It's been a lot of years since I looked at that stuff.  But I do recall only changing a one field in /etc/postfix/main.cf, specifically myorigin.   And that was after a lot of reading about postfix and experimentation and never making a change to any of these files without first making a copy of the original in case I needed to revert the file.
So I really don't know enough of postfix to help you set it up correctly.  Only suggest a lot of reading.  And unless you have a backup or know exactly which fields you changed I really can't help.  If you know the fields I could just look them up and tell you the original definitions.
If you don't have a backup and know how to use Pacifist you could suck the originals off your installer disk.
Finally, here's a link to a utility on macupdate I found which you may find useful (...or not):
Postfix Enabler

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    the issue seemed to be in the PORT on the Advanced tab.
    It was set by deafult to 143. they suggested I change
    the port to 110 which is what they support.
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