Checking one IMAP account from 2 different Macs using Mac Mail

Greetings,
New to the forums...
Have recently switched from using POP 3 account methods to IMAP (our new host provider encourages IMAPs, due to e-mail dupes showing up + more stable). Both my biz partner and I check the same accounts form both of our Macs (I check her e-mail, she checks mine, etc.). With the new IMAP accounts, sometimes we both get the same e-mails, other times one of us only gets the e-mail off the server.
Is it NOT possible to have 2 machines check the same IMAP account? (seems like that would be strange, i.e. a work at office/work from home scenario).
Assuming you CAN do this, any clues out there as to what we may be doing incorrect, set up wise?

What you're saying doesn't make much sense to me, so I might be missing something. Anyway, here it goes:
Both my biz partner and I check the same accounts
form both of our Macs (I check her e-mail, she checks
mine, etc.).
With IMAP, that means that whatever changes one of you make (i.e. reading, moving, deleting, etc.) will happen at the other side as well.
With the new IMAP accounts, sometimes we
both get the same e-mails, other times one of us only
gets the e-mail off the server.
Could it be because the message was deleted at the other side?
Is it NOT possible to have 2 machines check the same
IMAP account?
That's exactly what IMAP accounts are for...

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