Emails now in pending state EasyDiscuss and EasySocial

We had setup the cron jobs in May as scheduled tasks. Currently they are running and reporting "success's" (200) on the desired schedules. The problem is that none of the emails from either component (discuss/social) are being sent, since Aug 17 (social) and Aug 28th (discuss). The system was left alone, we are maintaining the host service. So prior to these dates the emails were being sent successfully. Any ideas, I have tried everything I could think of
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