Mac Mail collaboration question

Hi, myself and a colleague have both step Mac Mail to receive emails from a business email address (IMAP). Everything's working fine and emails appear in both our inboxes as expected. I'm very organised and like to keep my inbox as clean as possible so tend to frequently drag mail from my inbox to folders on my iCloud account to keep things tidy. The problem is that that email then disappears from my colleague's inbox on their machine.
I've been trying to find a solution to this problem hoping that there might be some kind of archival process whereby all emails could be put in a folder that we both had access to so that it didn't matter that emails disappeared from my colleague's inbox as the folder would contain a complete history of all mail sent and received from that account (I hope that makes sense).
Any bright ideas out there???

Thanks Eric that might work but I was hoping for something a little more 'elegant' rather than having to manually export mail every time a message arrives in the inbox.
I setup a new iCloud account thinking that i could share the password and then I could just drag messages into iCloud folders as I do at the moment with my personal iCloud account but that doesn't seem to work as it just gives me a new entry in the Mailboxes section of Mail. Is it possible to have multiple iCloud accounts displayed underneath my mailboxes???
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