Mail.app Account Auto Creation?

I've spent the last good few hours setting up an Xserve G5 with a nice, clean install of 10.5.2 Server.
I'm sure I found a function where the Standard version of the server automatically set up users' Mail.app on the client machines when I was testing 10.5.2 a few days ago.. but I can't for the life of me, find such a feature in the Advanced Server.
Am I shooting in the dark? Is there such a function available? My users are probably best described as technological dumbasses, and if they have to create their mail accounts, one of them's going to jump out of a window.
Any pointers to such a feature would be greatly appreciated.

While nobody's interested in answering if Advanced Server can do this (and after quite a bit of looking around, I can't find any options for it to do so), I wonder if anyone may know about how cPanel/WHM (www.cpanel.net) can create setup scripts for Mail.app?

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+ 10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff86330168 pthreadwqthread + 353+
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