Networking or sharing Mail folders

How do you set up local Mail folders so that they can be networked (or shared) by more than one computer?
I have stored local Mail folders on my G4 desktop where I download received and sent emails. Problem is that I cannot access these local Mail folders from my iBook. Is there a way to do this in OSX 10.4.5?
Thanks.
Jeff
iBook Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Greetings,
The problem with this is that local folders and their indexes cannot be accessed by two clients at one time. Even following that, each program would have to rebuild indexes each time it accessed the network as updates could have been enacted by another client. Local mailboxes are simply not designed for this.
That said, the only way to manage this would be by mounting shares over a network and using aliases or unix hard links, but I cannot attest to how well that will work.
This kind of functionality is what IMAP mail servers are designed for. With the storage space that .Mac offers, you can store a lot of email on the servers. You can run your own server using several software packages such as Mac OS X Server, CommuniGatePro, and Dovecot.
-travis n

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