Stuck in the Mail Queue

We lost our internet connection yesterday for over 12 hours. It is back on now and the mailserver is working fine BUT...
a) Nothing has arrived from the time we were out ie: I have everything prior to the lost connection and everything since, but nothing from the lost 12 hours. It is like it never existed!
b) I have a group in emails that are stuck fast in the mailserver queue (Server Admin, Mail, Maintenance, Mail Queue). I can delete some that I know to be spam but when I click 'Retry' nothing happens
Any ideas?
(Server 10.5.2)

Open terminal and issue:
sudo postsuper -r ALL
(Give it time and don't force the queue continuously. If it doesn't start sending after a few minutes, check /var/log/mail.log for clues)

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If they can't get to the content filter on the first try, maybe it's overloaded? How busy is your machine?
It's a new installation of Leopard Server on an internal drive, the CPU navigate from 0 to 20% so it's not here. I used spamtrainer to import the database from the old drive (Tiger Server) and the mail store is on a RAID disk so I just had to change the default mail location in the right pane. I just restarted the server on the Tiger Server disk and everything is fine there.
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Sorry, I do my best to be understandable :->
I just made tries to see if mails would be delivered once the spam and virus filter is off and saw that mails were not delivered at all.
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I doubt it is linked (unless you "play" with Server Admin while troubleshooting the queue). As I mentioned above, amavisd, doesn't run just "a bit".
You can always change the amavisd and postfix settings yourself.
If I knew what to change and where I probably would do it :->
I'm just scared about how many things don't work as expected once Leopard Server is installed.
Lot of problems with SMB too and as we have only one machine here I must reboot the server on Tiger if I don't want everybody here to kill me :->>
Maybe some files cannot be read/write...
If it was a permission issue, requeued mail would still hit the same issues.
Yes... I thought about that.
Do you think that it could help to download the 10.5.2 combo update and to reinstall it ?
Doubt it, but it probably won't hurt.
Will try it as soon as I can reboot the server on Leopard. I seems that someone will not leave the office like others will do today
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