Multiple mail accounts w/ passwords?

Have the imac family computer. Everyone wants their email accounts on "mail". But, as pesky children do, they go into each-others email accounts and mail silly things to their friends or subscribe them to 100 junk emailers.
So, is there any way (or any other software) that can handle 3-5 email accounts, and each account have their own password so nobody can use eachothers accounts???

Each family member and regular user of this iMac family computer should have their own computer login account without admin privileges. You can disable automatic login so each user must manually enter their login password to login to their account and gain access to their Home folder/directory including all their own data stored within. Each family member creates their email account only with Mail under their login account.
OS X was designed for multiple users of the same computer in this way with each user's home folder/directory and any other data stored within kept separate and protected from other users.
You can enable Fast User Switching to make the process of switching between multiple login accounts a fast and easy process.
When one family member is done using the computer under their login account, they can simply log off or select another user via Fast User Switching. With automatic login disabled, no one will be able to login to someone else's account unless they provide their password.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/family/
This is the best and only way to make this work.

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