Is it possible to let OS X Mail server POP and Sort

Hi there!
I'm a current Kerio Mail server user and the way it's set up is like this:
All our mail gets delivered and spam-filtered at our hostingprovider's server, all mail drops into 1 big mailbox.
Kerio pops this mailbox every so often and distributes the mail to the users that are managed in kerio.
Is this setup possible with OS X Server mail services? We are receiving loads of spam and our connection acts up sometimes so this setup provides great availability.
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i guess fetchmail comes into play ... it is installed but not configured
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Message was edited by: Zimmen

A few missing pieces here...
1. Are you using Kerio on your machine, or that is what your hosting provider is running? (I will assume the former).
2. Does your hosting provider accept mail to AnyUser@yourdomain, or only to legitimat users at your site? If the former, it is no wonder you are getting hammered by spam. You will take anything. Your provider might be able to filter against an RBL list, but that probably only takes out about 70% of the spam on a good day.
Anti-spam filtering takes place on the SMTP side of the server. Once the mail is delivered to your SP, you've got the mail and have to deal with it on the client side. Ugly at best. Fetchmail will not help you here.
OS X mail does have a pretty good selection of anti-spam tools. Most notably, SpamAssassin and greylisting. But both (greylisting in particular) require your mail server be the only mail server for your domain for best results.
Mail does not require particularly high availability. If your mail server is missing for a while, the sending site will try again later. Mail is very resilient to temporary failures. You could set up your SP as a backup MX host if you want, but I would submit that would increase your spam load when your server is down or missing (mail relay from a secondary host, short circuits the greylisting feature).
I do not know Kerio myself, but for mail alone, the built in mail services in OS X (current version) are pretty good. But you are shooting yourself in the foot by having your SP collecting mail for you, especially if they will accept any user.

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