Solution:

A LINUX box running FETCHMAIL on behalf of your users
to dump received mail into local shared directories of CYRUS imap server.
 From there, you can happily read/share your mails
using any imap aware client. (ie MOZILLA)

Easy ;)
Believe me.
But don't expect a 5 min work. :))

Imran

Adrian Redmond wrote:
> I am hoping that someone else has run into - and solved - this issue.
> 
> For many years our company has used Netscape (until recently 4.79)
> messenger for our email. We have 10-15 workstations on a peer-to-peer
> network (Windows 2K + a couple of W98SE machines) - of which about 5
> workstations access mail regularly throughout the day. Our network has
> a ADSL router which also functions as DHCP server allocating IP
> addresses to all workstations. One of the workstations is dedicated as
> a data server, with a RAID1 storage for all data, including mail. Mail
> is downloaded over the ADSL by the clients, all of which are set to
> store and read their mail from the network drive. This allows sharimng
> of all mail over the network, with the exception that no two users
> could access the same folder at the same time - the second to attempt
> doing so would simply get a "no access" message and would either wait
> or shout for the other user to vacate that folder.

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