Newbie need help installing server

Hi Guys
After a few years of working with Windows based servers and PC’s we have decided to introduce macs into the workplace. They are quite happily working on the windows network at the moment with little problems. But we want to have the macs on a separate network that is purely mac based, so we bought a mac mini server with snow leopard server I’ve been playing around and I’ve cracked DNS, DHCP and firewall. But my main problem is configuring the server to accept email and send email. Does anyone have any suggestions where to start and what i should be looking at, or if there are any good videos or guides about?
Cheers
Paul

Kinda of sorted the problem now but i will post new issue in mail section
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