Is there a way to lock an application?

Not sure I'm in the right place but here goes. As the title says really - I've got to take my iMac to have a repair done and they want to keep it for a couple of days. I'd like to leave it with them so they cannot open Mail as it as various financial emails I wouldn't want read. I know I could archive off the emails before I hand it over but making the application unopenable would be a lot easier. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Preventing Mail from starting wouldn't prevent access to the e-mails. Mail stores the e-mails as simple text files. If the e-mails were encrypted, they wouldn't be readable, but chances are that they are not encrypted since nearly nobody uses encrypted e-mail.
If you are worried about it, use Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image large enough to hold your Library/Mail folder, and move the Library/Mail folder into it. Unmount it. After you get your computer back, remember to open the disk image and copy your Mail folder back to where it was.
Nobody will be able to access data within the encrypted disk image without the password you assign to it. The data will be completely unreadable to a casual observer.
I should add that you should also backup whatever data you might miss before you give your computer up -- there's always the possibility that the hard disk won't survive the round-trip. Since you have a backup anyway, you could probably get away with simply deleting the contents of the Mail folder and then copying them back after you get your computer back.

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