Setting up Leopard Mail Server to access external pop mail accounts

First I don't know if this is possible, after a few hours trying I am not really sure if I am doing this right.
I really just want to have my Leopard Mail server pull any new mail from my web hosting company mail servers that host my domain (samplename.com as an example). My domain is hosted by a web hosting company as part of my website package. I don't really want to stop having the web hosting company host my mail portion. (kinda of a backup mail server of sorts?)
My Leopard mail server is called leopardserver.local and not my domain name (samplename.com). As I am afraid if I call my Leopard server by my domain name (samplename.com) it will stop letting me access my domain name (samplename.com) from my other Macs. Also possibly adding in to pull from my secondary domain name's mail server, and a gmail.com server later.
I am trying to avoid to creating the MX records, etc. if possible. Will my idea work?

Thank you pterobyte. This process was much simpler that I thought. After searching on these forums and finding the syntax for the .fetchmailrc file, I found on a website how to change the permissions for the .fetchmailrc file. This is now working when I log in as me and start it up - I will look at making it run from root later when I have more time.
I do have a question now related to the flip side - sending mail from my server. When I send mail from my server using the webmail piece or the Mail app on the server I received this message:
<[email protected]>;;: host smtp-server.mycableisp.com[00.00.000.000] said: 553 5.1.8
<[email protected]>;;... Domain of sender address [email protected]
does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command)
To fix this I put in the Reply-To a different valid account like [email protected] - this suppresses the error, but my mail is not going anywhere. The recipient does not get the message that was sent.
1. How can I fix this so my mail flows out and gets delivered?
2. If I change the server name to something like domainname.net, would this fix #1?
Here is the interesting part - If I create the message in Mail.app that has a From field (not webmail - which I will be using 99% of the time) everything flows through the mail server and gets delivered.
My logs are empty in the Server Admin utility.
I appreciate being able to learn more about this.

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