A way to use email on one Mac from another?

Rather than trying to use IMAP4, I was wondering if there was a simpler way of accessing email on my iMac from my MBP.
That is, is there some way I just mount my iMac and basically run email using the email plist and Mail folder, etc., on my iMac even though I am logged in on and using my MBP?
doug

Well, I'm in almost exactly the same situation as you. I have emails dating back to 2002 or 2003 online at the moment (and I'd have 1998-2002 if it weren't for a minor mixup back in Outlook days).
I used to be with lunarpages who had about a 500MB limit on emails, then I switched to ixwebhosting, who give me 3GB of storage (which I can do whatever I want with, in terms of web hosting/email), and so now I store all my mail on a hosting account with them.
You can set mail to still cache a copy of every message (which would be your local backup - which you could subsequently archive to disk, cd, etc.) but I like having a copy online at all times, so I know that even if my house were to disappear tomorrow I'd still have an "offsite" copy.
My advice to you would be: first backup your whole mail account data (to cd, hard disk, whatever) and put that in a safe place. Next, setup an IMAP account (or switch your current mailbox to IMAP if possible). Then you can configure every machine that you check mail from to either download and cache messages (eg. on your main machine) or simply work live off the server (eg. your iPhone, mobile phone, laptop, etc.)

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