Mail server re-build on 10.4.8 not working

Hello,
We had a 10.4.7 server built on a dual G4 500 that crashed hard a month ago during a backup, losing the complete directory structure. We have tried hard to re-build fresh on an Intel IMac using OS X server 10.4.8.
The web server seems to work fine, our problem seems to be the interaction between Posftix, Amavis, Spamassassin and ClamAV.
We get lmtp time out errors, etc., and are approaching our wits end tracing out the error logs...we have the skills and enough recovered files to re-create most of the mail database once the mail server is functioning.
Are there consultants with specialized skills that could help?
Are there issues with 10.4.8 that wouldn't exist if we re-built on a G5 and 10.4.3 or 10.4.7?
Is there an approach besides logic and experimentation that could be used to walk through this?
Is this re-build time unusual for those without serious Unix training? One of us has Unix skills and the other doesn't but this seems a lot like rocket science.
Tks,
David

I just tried your scenario by forcing the death of a 4 domain dual MDD by unplugging it in the middle of a backup and then hitting my iMac as a replacement machine, in less than 10 minutes, I recovered the users from the netinfo files so I wouldn't have to re-enter all 209 of them.
In 37 minutes, I reconfigured postfix, amavisd-new, cyrus, mailman, squirrelmail, mysql, updated SpamAssassin and ClamAV, transferd my apache config and site files then brought the machine to life on the net to verify everything was working.
Your biggest problem is going to be the lack of knowledge to what is required to be recovered, what can be rebuilt quickly and how much data needs to be transfered and that the intel machine suffers some configuration issues not affecting the PPC's as serious because apple cut corners and forced installation of some important software without including required dependancies and installing these dependancies properly is just as important.
If you contact me off list I can probably provide some time to assist you with this matter as long as you don't mind following instructions and are interested more in getting it up rather than learning, my patience to teach is most often non-existant because it takes more time than I have to give.

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