Many thanks Thomas for your useful feedback!
Will explore your suggestions..

Mike
 

Hello!

We're an outfit of about 10 users and long-term Pegasus devotees!
Believe it or not we still run trusty version v3.12 ("10th Anniversary Edition")!
Email is hosted at our ISP & downloaded to a location on a Windows network share; so no local email server.

Shockingly (I'll admit it myself) we ALL share the same user account/mailbox. I'm fully aware this is risky, ill-advised etc BUT it has the huge advantage that ALL users can see ALL incoming/outgoing communication and email history. Yes, we suffer the occasional loss of a folder, or folders that appear in the folder root instead of where they were created but these issues can be cleared up when there's only one person logged on. It's worked for years without major data loss.

Lately I've been playing with v4.41 (nice), which pops up a sensible warning however to say the mailbox is locked & NOT to proceed if anyone else is logged in too as data loss is inevitable.....

So my question is this: is there a legitimate & safe approach to our fundamental desire to be able to share (directly or indirectly) the one mailbox???

To anyone that answers - thanks for your time!

Mike

So my question is this: is there a legitimate & safe approach to

our fundamental desire to be able to share (directly or indirectly) the

one mailbox???

The only way to do this safely is to use IMAP4.  You can download a copy of Mercury/32 and install it on your system.  You would download the mail from the outside POP3 host using MercuryD  and send all mail via MercuryC or MercuryE.  You users can then use IMAP4 connecting to the MercuryI server to access the mail.  

Personally though I'd get everyone a free GMail or Yahoo account and simply access this common account via Noticeboards or public folders.  Mail can come in via Mercury/32 and be sent directly to the common folders .   You can have the users use a public folder for the copy self folder so in all cases all users are running completely separate accounts but have access to the common data.

 FWIW, there are many other ways for all users to see all traffic to a common email address, the winpmail-support@pmail.gen.nz is an example as to how this is done.