Snow Leopard Server incoming Mail

I am trying to set up my mail server with Snow Leopard Server. I am able to send messages out of accounts I've created, but I am not able to receive them. I receive this message:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.1.1 <[email protected]> invalid recipient
How do I correctly set up it to receive incoming mail?

It seems there are a few issues at hand and you're not alone. We've been experiencing the same issues on a clean install of SNS and have just turned off the default greylisting (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2130446&tstart=0) to see if that helps.
The mail server seems to be working instantly for all 'normal' email but attachments can be problematic. Testing from my dot me account I can send a 10 MB attachment and it arrives fine within a few minutes but if I send it 3 or 4 times one of them will inevitably fail. The sporadic behaviour is making it vary hard to track down and I'm finding the logs quite hard to decipher.
The other issue (which may well be the same issue) is where an email will arrive late - quite often exactly 60 minutes late - although we have seen this as much as 3 or 4 hours.
There are several threads on the front page relating to this but they've become a bit muddled and it's hard to know on which thread to post questions.
I know none of this specifically answers your questions but the other threads may give you somewhere to start. For now we're just monitoring things without the greylist and if the problems persist we'll have to delve a little deeper.

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    There are several threads on the front page relating to this but they've become a bit muddled and it's hard to know on which thread to post questions.
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    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
    That being said, and being the author of the aforementioned thread, I STRONGLY recommend that, where possible, you use Snow Leopard Server in favor of Snow Leopard client.  This will side step some later corruption problems that can arise from the improper use and shutting down of this Parallels partition.
    Historically, this thread was written when Apple sold Snow Leopard Server for $499+ or ceased sales altogether.  Now, Apple has rendered the (now diminishing) debate over the EULA moot, by its recent release of Snow Leopard Server to the US & Canadian community for $20; leaving those who cannot purchase SLS (or get someone to purchase it for them) to continue to follow the instructions in my thread (or asking me to purchase SLS for them and forward it to them; my preferred course of action!).
    •  I ALWAYS recommend that data files be stored on the real Mac's HDs and NOT in a virtualized world.  This is easy to accomplish and establishes a backup regimine (Time Machine, etc.) that will protect the users data.  Lost applications are easily restored from their installer discs.
    •  In practice I find that using SLS in Parallels 8 is the same as using SL client in Parallels.  I have even removed the Server apps from the Dock so as to not be confused by them.
    So, your solution is to establish a "shared folder" on the hard drive of the Mac that is hosting Parallels.  When in SLS in Parallels you will have access to your shared folder, ironically through Parallels' "Shared Folders" feature that is now present in Mac OS Guest installs on version 8 (see the "Shared Folders" SERVER on the right side of the screenshot, below).
    When using Freehand MX or other PowerPC apps, save your data files into your shared folder through access to it by Parallels' Shared Folders.  Other users on your network will have access to the SAME data files, through their customary use of file sharing to access your shared folder from your Mac's hard drive.
    IGNORE the Server applications in the Applications folder...
    Freehand MX running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels 8 for use in Lion or Mt. Lion:
                                  [click on image to enlarge]
    Postscript: your post was so easy to follow!

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