Connecting my iMac and my Power Book

I am about to acquire a PB and have an iMac G5. They will usually be in adjacent rooms on a wireless network. I would like to be able to receive my mail simultaneously on both machines, and if possible, have any replies or changes appear on both computers at the same time. I use Entourage education version,and there's no problem with running two versions of Office at once. My mail servers are POP. I do not have .Mac (had a bad experience with them when they first started and never went back).
Basically, what I want is an instantaneous clone of each machine to the other. Is there a simple, elegant way to do this?
I originally posted this on the iSync board, but I don't think iSync is the solution.
Thanks,
Miriam

Hello,
There is no way to convert a POP account to an IMAP account. The server type is determined by your service provider.
The only option I could think of there, would be to sign-up with a mail server that offers IMAP and can also retrieve e-mail from other servers.
I don't know of any right at the moment. I don't use IMAP.
But, I do recall seeing some servers with that option.
There are also Mail forwarding programs and services. So, you could always try to employ one of those methods to get your mail forwarded to an IMAP account.
One such service would appear to be here:
http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_forward.htm
And, some free IMAP accounts are listed here:
http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_imap.htm
But, ultimately, the simplest solution would be to move over to using an IMAP mail server and address.
I hope this helps.

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