Password protection for Microsoft Outlook

[star-ling]

All members of my family use on computer but only I use Outlook for business. Some of the emails I receive are confidential but if any members of my family or their friends want to read my emails they only need to press send and receive and they are there for anyone to read. Does anyone know of a way round this? Thanks

[fo3nix]

Depending what you want (basically how confidential your stuff is), you could use GPG, the GNU Privacy Guard. It doesn't cost you anything, and will protect your emails to the very highest levels (the government couldn't read what you were typing). You can get a complete package that works well here:
http://www.gpg4win.org/

However, that may be a little bit more than you want. It also requires anyone that wants to send you private encrypted stuff to also have GPG or a compatible product.

Something like this may do as a basic password protection system:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/assistance/H A011138511033.aspx

[vehelpfulguy]

Not sure if you are using Outlook (the one that comes with Office), or Outlook Express, the one that comes free with Windows.

Whichever you use you should be able to protect people from logging on as you.

I use Outlook Epress at home and have set it up so that each of my family have a password protected logon for their Outlook mail.

It is not that difficult to do.

[Ralph]

Could you not set up two user accounts (if on Windows 2000 or XP, or even maybe ME)? You can password protect your business one and leave the non-business one unprotected.

When you leave the PC, all you have to do is log off. Your email will be account specific, so unreadable on the other account.

[star-ling]

Thanks to everyone. I will set up a separate account and password it