All users read all incoming email

We're new to the Apple world. G5. We have multiple users on this one computer, and we also have .mac (not a family account, but a personal account with additional email only accounts added). When we click on the mail button in the dock, it does not seem to matter which of us is logged on, we all get mail sent to any of us.
Surely there is someway to set things up so that each user has the privacy of seeing only his or her own email, without worrying that the other users are seeing it also.
Help, please.
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

I'm assuming you already set up multiple system account for each of your users.
I think you did setup the same .Mac account for each of your users, and only declared aliases in .Mac, which means you create alternate emails for the same account.
Now I don't know much about features provided by .Mac for multiple users, but I would say that multiple users = multiple .Mac account, otherwise that would be too easy to share accounts giving no money to Apple.
If this is the same account, and because .Mac use IMAP (which means all messages are stored in the server and not in your account) each "user" see the same mail database.
But perhaps I'm wrong and you can define a limited amount of users for the same .Mac account

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