I'm trying to set up Mail in MacOSX SL Server but ..

My mail/domain is managed by an ISP (Earthlink). I have no problems with that and am content to let them
host things.
What I want to do is setup Mail on my new MacOS X SnowLeopard Server so that
1) mail would get fetched from the ISP auto-magically into my server and
2) fetched mail could then be read via Mail.App on either the server or a client laptop
before I got Mac Server, I had a G5 just running 10.4. and had successfully set up a combination
of
1) fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP and stow it locally (I think /var/mail)
2) "mailserv" and postfix to act as SMTP/POP mail service readable by Mail.App on the G5.
I have fetchmail which can run on the server, and I can sort of get the Server's included Postfix & Dovecot
software to run BUT
1) I don't know where to tell fetchmail to put the mail fetched so that Dovecot can provide it either POP or IMAP
to a client,
2) am having trouble getting users to authenticate properly into Dovecot to even attempt to read mail.
Has anyone tried a setup similar to this?
I don't want to try getting my server setup as a true mailhost (i.e., getting my ISP to route my mail to my machine).
I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to do so (my home network is private, connected to the outside world via Comcast cable).
It seems like it OUGHT to be do-able, which means I'm doing something wrong in my set up.
Or, maybe it ISN'T possible to set it up the way I want ..
I would appreciate any advice or help I can get.
I've been on Macs since '84, and worked as Unix admin for 15 years, but MacOS Server isn't easy as I'd like.

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