Snow Leopard Server and ISP POP email

Hi there
Just wondering if the Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard Server could manage the following:
Rather than set up my own domain for email, I am wondering if SLS can be set up to retrieve my POP email from my ISP mail server and then serve that mail using an IMAP mail box so that I can then access what were originally POp emails from anywhere.
Is this possible?

I'm facing this same problem... is there by any chance some sort of "guide" to using fetchmail and it's features? Or a GUI-interface for fetchmail?
I'll be the first to admit that I need training and such about working with OsX (server), and I'm working on that part

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Oh, on the losing Internet, try this...
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.7 & 10.8…
System Preferences>Network, top of window>Locations>Edit Locations, little plus icon, give it a name.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
Instead of joining your Network from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.
For 10.5/10.6, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
PS. Your English is quite good & completely understandable.

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Is it possible to install Lion on the second hard disk on my Mini (2010) Snow Leopard Server, and switch between Lion and Snow Leopard? I like those voices Lion has in speech.

When baltwosaid NO emphatically, that was described as CORRECT ANSWER. Ditto in the caeses of the radically different answers from Camelotand Matt Clifton
Could it be that CORRECT ANSWER needs better defining by Apple?
That apart, yes, switching might involve rebooting. About the voices, well, I was the other day adding voice to a commentary in a video I was working on. There's only American English accent in SL — Lion I believe has British ones as well.
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I'm running FCServer on an iMac, and I'm currently looking for the best solution for giving co-workers outside of our office network remote access to our FCS database. The main purpose for this is for remote users to screen and download episode segments and movies from our database.
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Before I go out and buy SLS for the company, I want to be sure it will work. Am I correct that Snow Leopard Server, and the built-in Mobile Access Server, will allow users outside of our network remote access to our FCSrvr database?
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Hmmm... Thanks for the replies.
I posted this question in the OS X Server forum and got this response:
+"I haven't used Final Cut Server, but I'm pretty sure the Mobile Access Server wouldn't work with it. MAS works with plain HTTP, and the Address Book, iCal, and Mail (SMTP and IMAP) services; but FCServer is only partly HTTP-based, and I don't think even the HTTP part will work due to how MAS authenticates HTTP clients. Also, you might be thinking about using MAS as the same computer as FCServer, and it won't work that way -- MAS needs to be on a separate (internet-facing) computer from the actual origin server (which should be firewalled from the internet).+
+I'd go back to thinking about VPN... "+
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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I give you the following objectives I have for the use of these 1tb drives on the system and would appreciate any other advice you might have to offer.
1) I envision using two of the drives as primary, and the other two as backups using TimeMachine.
2) I would like to have the following partitions on the startup drive (#1).
a)one boot partition for installation of Server OS and Application programs.
b)one boot partition for future Mac OS installations.
c)one data partition to house the /Users filesystem - 4 named users in household who share two macbooks.
d)one or more partitions for separate deployments of Guest OSes for XP, Window 7, etc. using Parallels.
3) As far as partition sizes, I am thinking 50 Gb for each of the MacOS bootables and apps, 100 Gb for the Guest OSes. Leaving about 500 or 600 Gb for /Users, including an iTunes library, and the wife's scrapbooking.
4)Ok, drive #2. I want this drive dedicated to demanding storage needs of video.
5)Drive #3. TimeMachine Backup for Drive #1.
6)Drive #4. TimeMachine Backup for Drive #2.
Thoughts? I appreciate your questions and critique on my outline here.
Thanks much!

Off load /users to another hard drive
don't use internal drives for TimeMachine, especially both. Safer to be external. And if internal, use extra drive sleds.
Depending on what you use it for, the 640 might be fine. Maybe use it as a bootable clone though.

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If yes, have this clients a network home directory on the Server ?
Have you encountered any trouble with these Tiger's clients ?
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Thanks in advance for all your answers.

Hi
Ditto with Jeff
+"Has anyone managed to have Tiger PPC 10.4.11 accounts on Snow Leopard Server 10.6.4?"+
Yes. Lots of times. Also had 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 clients logging in with network accounts on a 10.4 Server.
+"If yes, have these clients a network home directory on the Server?"+
Yes.
+"Have you encountered any trouble with Tiger clients?"+
No.
Tony

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Hi,
I'm thinking of buying a Mini Mac server for hosting several websites and was wondering if anyone can help me with the following:
1. How easy is it to host several website?
2. Can the Mac Mini Server be connected to a timecapsule for automated backups
3. (not really Mac related but you may be able to help!) My ISP upload speed is only .5 Mb, how does this affect download speeds from the sites I host?
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Regards
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1. How easy is it to host several website?
Trivial.
2. Can the Mac Mini Server be connected to a timecapsule for automated backups
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You get 50 gigabytes of upload speed through sheer force of, um, whoops, sorry, clients receiving pages from or pulling files from your server get that 0.5 speed. Enabling compression can help. Some.
4. Will it run joomla, and is php/mysql already installed?
Yes, and yes.
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[Here are the server docs|apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html].
Set up DNS first.

Mac Mini /w Snow Leopard Server and Time Capsule: unavailable on www

Hello all,
Seeking some help with an issue that I cannot resolve and/or do not fully understand.
What I would like to achieve:
Make my newly purchased mac mini server available on the world wide web using my own web address, e.g. blabla.com.
Situation/Details:
I have installed and re-installed my mini server several times as I am doubt the correctness of the settings for the primary dns, currently set for 'blabla.com' and computer name 'miniserver'. The miniserver is connected with a network cable to my timecapsule and has been allocated the IP address 1.0.10.9 - time capsule has IP address '1.0.10.1'.
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Problem:
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Thanks DaddyPaycheck for your initial response. Before I jump onto the phone with Comcast couple of questions that I have for clarification purposes:
1) Are you implying that I must link my blabla.com address to that static IP address through my Domain Provider? See following example:
Record Type Record Host Record Answer TTL
A *.blablat.com >>Static IP<< 300
2) The current IP I have been given 60.172.151.254, why is that not static or how do you know it is not static?
3) When executing the command host in terminal for this IP address it returns the following: c-60-172-151-254.hsdl.co.comcast.net which coincidentally is the same as primary DNS it recommended during the initial configuration of the Mini Server. What does this mean? When I enter this in Safari it results in 'Safari can't connect to server'.
4) Executing the same command for my domain name 'blabla.com' it results in my 'internal' IP address '1.0.10.9'.
Thanks in advance for any clarification you can provide,
Tiest.

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I purchased a mac mini with snow leopard server and Remote desktop so I can easily manage my 11 computers, install and upgrade software etc. etc.
The mac mini server will basically be nothing but a server.
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Hello,
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To answer your questions about file locations:
/private/etc/apache2/ for the httpd.conf files
/usr/sbin/ for both the apachectl and the httpd binaries
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This is a screen grab of the locations where I believe I am able to update my "ethernet" info for Paralells 7 Snow Leopard:
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MlchaelLAX
Since I have been directed to: "NOT waste everyones time on this discussion" the only thing more I am going to do after this post is click on: "Stop email notifications" and never return to this thread again!
Internet access through Ethernet in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels 8 on 2011 Mac Mini in Lion:"
I simply don't want to purchase and have to install Parallels 8 .... Parallels 7 should work fine on connecting to the Internet. Also, I was asking about the internet connection issue with the new 2013 iMac (running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 runiing Parallels 7), not a 2011 Mini Mac running Lion with Parallels 8.

Please help, After mac 10.5.8 mail server migrated to snow leopard server?

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All my old emails date has changed to the date on which i migrated to snow leopard server, all the old emails show as they arrived on 31st of Dec 2009.
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here is a link of other users having wrong date problems after upgrading to 10.6
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2134525
Some people have managed to fix their date problems. The easiest workaround is to add the column "Date Sent" under (View->Columns->Date Sent) in mail.app and to sort by the send date not the received date.
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I really don't know what are going wrong with my settings. As you said/write it must be an easy setup.
I'm using a Time Capsule and used the Server app to add VPN to the port forwarding also.
When I am connected thru the VPN I tried to ping the Server IP and got no answer from it, from W7 client!?
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