Mail does not send when several accounts active

Hi,
Finally I got Tiger, as I had to have Google Earth for Mac (another story anyway) that only runs on Tiger.
Of course several things stopped working like PHP local, Postfix, and so on. These were remedied (but the new .conf files had a strange date, well, again, another story).
Now I am a bit stuck on the following problem :
I cannot anymore sent mail when I have several mail accounts configured. (I can when there is only one).
At first I thought it was SpamSieve, but it seems not, as I have removed it (it does not run and the plugin is gone). Then I rechecked my Postfix cf files, but they're ok and I send mail from localhost when using Thunderbird where several accounts are set up.
It does not matter whether I use localhost or any of the smtp servers I can use, and when beginning a new message, I cannot use the popup which lets me choose an originating account. Neither can I write anything in the message content box.
Of course I checked everything in the Preferences dialogs.
Well, well. Any hints ?

It turns out I cannot eliminate Spamsieve as a possible culprit.
I have erased all accounts (rm /Users/myUID/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist) and SpamSieve plugin (rm -r /Users/myUID/Library/Mail/Bundles/Spamsieve*)
Then I reconstructed 5 accounts using the wizard (File->Add account) rather than reimporting from a saved plist or building from the prefs panel (seems that does not work and using the wizard at least to name the accounts is required).
Then I test the send button and it works on all accounts.
Then I reinstall SpamSieve which breaks sending mail on all accounts.
I am back with operational accounts and no SpamSieve.
I cannot explain this, I just observe.
Any idea ? Anyone made similar observations ?
I'd like to put SpamSieve back on, it is efficient.
Note : perms are fixed, caches lean, periodic tasks have run.

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