How can I keep Mail in sync on two Macs?

One of the beauties of .mac seems to be that you can work on your email from various computers.
Both my wife and I each have a Mac laptop, which we sometimes want to use interchangeably (webcam, size, portability reasons). We each have an individual @mac.com email address but would like to have both email accounts combined and visible on each computer. What sync settings would I need to choose to achieve this?
Thanks in advance for any advice.

POP accounts can be set up to leave mail on the server. Thus this mail could be accessed from several different computers.
I used Eudora a while ago, and set up 2 accounts, one left email on the server, and one did not. I would normally check mail from the one that left it on the server (accounts like this on several macs). When I was ready to download the mail, then I would check it from the other account that existed on only one of the macs.
So in Mail, you could set up for POP and leave mail on the server. Then when ready to download (and not be able to see mail from various macs) you could switch to another user account, where Mail would be set up to not leave mail on the server.
However, iMap makes this whole process easier.
Normally, iMap mail can stay on the server forever. But I do like to get my mail and store it on my Mac after an arbitrary period of time. So I have set up a smart rule in Mail.
It is GET MAIL:
if Date received is less than 10 days old
perform the following actions: stop evaluating rules
So every day the mail is received, and of course it is less than 10 days old, so the rules stop evaluating.
When I am ready to download the messages I select all in the mailbox, and use command-option-L to apply the rules. Any messages less than 10 days old stay on the server, Older messages then follow the other rules which are listted after GET MAIL. Usually these just filter mail into specific dumb mailboxes on my Mac. And/Or they could color the mail, or whatever else I choose to do with the mail.

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