Two users, one mail. Can it be done?
My wife and I have two different user accounts, but we use the same email, which is on my account. Is it possible to share mail between our two accounts so that when either of us gets mail, sends mail or deletes stuff, it will be universal between the two of us?
Thanks
Chris
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.2 GHZ 1.25 GB RAM
hi christopher,
what kind of email server do you use: IMAP? POP?
the obvious answer here is to leave your email on the server. this is generally how IMAP servers work by default....
the connection you make to a POP server (i.e. with Mail.app) can also be configured to leave the messages on the server. see Mail > Preferences > Accounts then the Advanced tab. there's a checkbox next to 'Remove copy from server after retrieving a message'... you'd uncheck that in your case...
but be careful... your email server might have a limit on the amount of space that your mailbox can consume. if you leave your messages on the server for a long time and then use up all your allocated space - new messages might bounce. this happened to me once on one of my POP accts when i forgot to check that checkbox... the senders receive a reply "cannot access mailbox /var/mail/llope for user llope. error writing message: File too large" and you won't get the message.... so, if you go this way, make sure to clean up periodically...
cheers...
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