Two mail clients: One account

I have a problem:
I have a private mail account (i mean, not gmail, or hotmail or anything)... and i access it from two clients in two different machines (i don't want to use the webmail interface)
The problem is that, obviously, if i download a mail in one client, it won't be downloaded from the other one... unless i enable the option to keep a copy on the mail server.
Big problem is the quota: I receive lots of attached files by mail, and if i don't access it for, lets say, a week, the quota will reach its top and i would stop receiving mails.
I thought about a solution that i want to ask you guys if is possible to do:
Install a mail server on my company that retrieves the mails from the external mail box and stores them.. so, when i connect from the two clients, i do it against this local mail server.... and never delete the mails from it...
I don't really know where to start from or even if this is possible..... any suggestions?
Thank you!!

Retrieve your mails using getmail or something and run an IMAP server using dovecot. For multi-access you eventually want imap anyway. offlineimap is a good option for doing IMAP with a full local copy (you could exclude an 'archive' folder if storage on your client machines is tight).
You could also set up a gmail account which accesses your private mail account (gmail allows retrieving mail that way), which would do the same thing you're trying to do (in my example, it replaces getmail and dovecot). Then just use the free IMAP option. Of course, then google gets to see your emails...

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