How can I read my email on two computers?

I have two iMac's and want to read my e-mail from both computers.
I have a shared network drive that can contain all the data.
with iPhoto this is easy. You can replace the iPhoto library to any location, open iPhoto with the alt key pressed in and you can select the location of the requested library. In this way both computers an point to the same source.
I want to do the same with mail. I know where to locate the files, but how can i setup mail that it will read from an other location?
(buying OSX server just for this is to much)

POP. Post Office Protocol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostOfficeProtocol
Standard behavior for POP is to download messages from the mail server, once downloaded they are erased from the server. You can tweak this default behavior on your mac by setting it to leave a copy on the server for any number of days you wish before telling the server to erase the message(s).
In your case if you set mail to leave messages on the server for 7 days, you could have the same messages on both machines, and a seperate copy of each stored on each machine provided you check the mail at least once a week on each machine. EASY.
IMAP. Internet Message Access Protocol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap
A handy primer on imap and apple mail:
http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2007/04/setting-up-imap-in-apple-mail/
Allows your computer to essentially mirror all files and folders on the mail server. Useful for when you want to view from more than one machine, or one machine and some kind of web mail interface.
With both machine set to access via IMAP, you would see on each machine what is actually on the mail server. If you view mail on one machine, delete junk and go to the other machine, you will not see nor have to delete the junk from the second machine. HANDY - but maybe a little more work to configure.

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