Our office has a few Macs. One is used by our artworker, who also deals with a lot of e-mail (using Entourage with a number of POP accounts). The boss also wants to use Entourage to send and receive mail - No problem, apprently. However, he wants his e-mail (sent and received messages with attachments) to mirror those of the artworker's in real time. So, if the artworker needs to pop out or is not around for the day, the owner can easily see which messages have been replied to, what they were etc. Essentially the boss wants 2 machines running at the same time, which always have the same mail database as each other.
I'm looking at this and know that a swap to IMAP is inevitable but want to make sure that it will do what we need. If the account is set to synchronize with the IMAP server every time it checks mail then I assume that the two mail databases on the different machines should remain in parity? Alternative e-mail addresses are not possible, for various reasons so this seems like the only solution. I did consider OS X server (we have a spare G4) with IMAP configured ont here which would make it a little more controllable, rather than dealing with our ISP but that just seems like using a sledghammer to crack a nut.
Entourage is what the guys are comfortable with (they only just moved to OS X!) and I know from experience that Apple Mail doesn't always play nice with some IMAP servers. I have considered a M$ Exchange server but that means buying a PC and then coughing the money for the server too. This is a tiny operation and simplicity is the key to it running successfully.
So, if anyone has any suggestions then I'd appreciate some input.
Thanks!
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