Restoring smtp, postfix, imap, and pop after upgrade to Tiger

Dear Fellow Mac users:
I was a party to a number of discussions in this and other fora regarding how
to fix mail server software which is disrupted by an upgrade from OS 10.2 to OS 10.4. After some months and some pain, I have finally restored these services on my G4 workstation running Mac OS 10.4. The steps were many and are
a bit too numerous to post here, so I have put them in a web page:
http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~bonomo/applemailfix.html
It is my hope that I can save some other poor soul out there
some time and grief.
Rich
Mac OS X (10.4)
Mac OS X (10.4)

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
There are many topic in this forum about just what you are experiencing, and two very recent ones are:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1800343#1800343
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1801311&#1801311
If you read these, I think you will know what to do. Let me know if you have any questions about these various steps.
With any mailbox you can see in Mail (now or subsequent to these procedures) can be a source to transfer into any other mailbox, including your Inbox -- just click on Edit when in a source mailbox, Select All, and then click on Message in the Menu Bar, and choose Move To (or Copy To).
Hope this helps.
Ernie

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hi guys,
i was trying to search through past threads for this answer but to no avail. anyways, i had and imap and pop(gmail) account through apple mail. only recently, something just happened and every setting on all my apps and my doc and desktop were set to default. this means all the accounts that i had setup through mail also got erased. i reset everything but here are the problems i encounter:
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