Use Mail Server as "In-Between" mail server/router

To start with, I am still a fairly inexperienced user as far as Mac OS X Server is concerned. That's why I have a simple, maybe even stupid question, compared to all the professional ones here.
I'd like to use Mail Server for incoming and outgoing emails to be saved on our (Mac OS X 10.6) server and to have a copy sent to our ISP (or vice versa). Is this at all possible with Mail Server?? If yes, how?

First of all, there is NO SUCH thing as a stupid question. We all started at the beginning at one point. (sometimes I feel like I am still there)
If I understand your question correctly, yes, it is easy to do.
In Server Admin, click on Mail in the services pane on the left hand side.
Then click on Settings, General
and then tick the box that says, Copy all Mail to:
Input the ISP mail address you want a copy of all your mail to go to in the box.
Your mail will go to only one server at a time, however, based on the priority you set in DNS MX records. So it's either you host it, or your ISP hosts it. Not both (well, you can make one the back up for the other in case the primary can't be reached).
If I didn't understand your request, please explain and I will try to help.
Scott

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I haven't seen this issue on this board. Let me know if I'm wrong.
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tell Mail to move a message out of Inbox,
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          •          SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
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In the iphone, POP has the opton to "delete from server: never"
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