Linux VM's and Evolution questions

[kevin kempter]

Hi List;

I have several clients that I work with, each of them has it's own VPN  
connection. I'm tired of switching between VPN connections to keep up  
on email from them throughout the day.

Here's what I'm thinking:

- Fire up a Linux server with 8G or so of memory

- Setup Vmware workstation on the server

- Install a Linux VM on the server for each client (VPN)

- Keep the VPN's logged in, and use some sort of VNC connection from  
my mac laptop to the VM's to see that clients email (via evolution)  
and open terminals to their servers

Is this a good plan? Are there better choice?

Note some of my clients I can only pull mail via exchange and others I  
can get to via pop connections. If possible I'd like to take it a step  
further and seamlessly integrate each client's email into a profile in  
entourage on my macbook so I can send / receive emails from my mac and  
have 'em "pass-through" to/from the VM connections with the correct  
VPN.  Also I'd like to setup seamless integration per opening terminal  
ssh windows to the client servers, I think I can get this working via  
wc however I'm lost per the email bit.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance