How to get separate family mail accounts

Question

Our mail server has allowed us to have five email accounts,-dad, mom, and three children. How do we set mail to get mail from only one account. ie-how does dad go onto the server and get dads mail and leave the others there? As it is now when I get mail I get mail for all of the accounts.
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

The only way to do so is by creating a separate computer login account for each family member (with admin privileges for Dad's or Mom's account -depending on who has the single admin account now and create non-admin accounts for each child).
This way, each user/family member has their own login account and Home folder/directory to store their data only with each creating their email account only with the Mail.app under their login account. OS X is designed for multiple users of the same computer in this way with each user's Home folder/directory kept separate and protected from each user. Each user can set up their own Desktop background, screen saver and personal settings, etc. so when each user logs into their account, it seems like their own computer not shared by anyone else. There is also a Shared folder in each user's Home folder/directory to place files that need to be shared among other user accounts.
I'm not sure but I believe Fast User Switching is available with Panther and if so, this makes the process of switching between user login accounts a fast and easy process.
You can also disable automatic login which requires each user to manually enter their login password to gain access to their account, Home folder/directory and all data stored within along with access to their email account only with the Mail.app.