Easy setting up and using Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server?

[lsquare]

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/mail-services.html

So the new Mac Mini came out today and I'm interested in picking one up with the Mac OS X Server edition. Has anyone here used it before? Is it easy and straight forward to set one up?

I read some of the features and one thing that caught my attention is that it can be setup as a mail server. It also has push e-mail support. Will this work from home with a dynamic instead of a static IP? The devices that will connect to the server will be Apple iPhones and a Nokia E71 (Symbian).

[rawr_boy81]

  On 16/06/2010 at 07:31, lsquare said:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/mail-services.html

So the new Mac Mini came out today and I'm interested in picking one up with the Mac OS X Server edition. Has anyone here used it before? Is it easy and straight forward to set one up?

I read some of the features and one thing that caught my attention is that it can be setup as a mail server. It also has push e-mail support. Will this work from home with a dynamic instead of a static IP? The devices that will connect to the server will be Apple iPhones and a Nokia E71 (Symbian).

You can request a static IP address from your ISP or you could sign up for a service like dynip where you get a domain name and the special software on your server takes care of the ip changes as they occur.

[lsquare]

  On 16/06/2010 at 14:59, rawr_boy81 said:

You can request a static IP address from your ISP or you could sign up for a service like dynip where you get a domain name and the special software on your server takes care of the ip changes as they occur.

Is it better to have a static ip for my intended purpose? Have you setup a Mac OS X Server before? Any comments on it?

[Xtreme $niper]

If a static IP will cost more from your ISP than using a dns service would, then just go with the dns service... In the end I'd probably go with the dns service, but then again I haven't taken a look at pricing for those things in a long time.

I'm sure OS X Server is just the same as the client version, but with those extras included.

That said, I've never used it.

[rawr_boy81]

  On 16/06/2010 at 17:43, lsquare said:

Is it better to have a static ip for my intended purpose? Have you setup a Mac OS X Server before? Any comments on it?

Follow Xtreme $niper regarding dns service versus static ip; the benefit with a static ip is that you don't have to remember an iP - just a domain name.

As for setting up, it is pretty easy, the most difficult part is setting up the router to route traffic through to your server.