Access Mail centrally from several accounts?

Is it possible to set up Mail so that people using separate OS X accounts can all see the same copy of Mail? So, if one person downloads messages, they will be also appear in Mail in other accounts. I want to keep an eye on my children's emails, and at the moment I've set up the computer with a separate account for email, and all family members check for emails there. This is OK, but causes problems if you want to attach photos or documents, because you have to open your own account and transfer the items to Shared, and then go back into the email account. I thought maybe you could put the mailboxes themselves in the Shared folder, and make Mail access them there, but I don't know if this is possible.
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Set up Mail in your children's accounts as follows:
1. Set Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server after retrieving a message to either After one week or After one month, to give you time to download the same messages in your own user account.
2. If you also want to see the messages they send, enable Preferences > Composing > Automatically [BCC] myself. Your children may wonder why they receive a copy of every message they send if you do this, though.
In your user account, set up your children's mail accounts as follows:
1. Disable Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server after retrieving a message, to avoid removing messages from the server that your children haven't downloaded yet.
2. There is nothing else to do here.
Note that your children can easily change those settings if they know how to do it (or even if they don't know, but they are curious and decide to start playing with them).
Alternatively (or in addition to) the above measures, you can also use the Parental Controls features of Tiger -- read the relevant articles in Mac Help or Mail Help for more information on this.

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