Locking access to email

Can I lock access to my email program, "Mail" and leave open the rest of my computer. This is to prevent anyone without a password to view my mail.

Not really a good way to do this. It would be better to set up a guest account and let others use that. Then you could "fast user switch" to the guest account for them leaving your account logged on in the background.

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I lost my Iphone 5 today in Johor Bahru. Not install Find my Phone/Icloud/Offline. How to prevent others access my email and data ? Or how to remote lost mode/locking phone ?

I lost my Iphone 5 today in Johor Bahru. Not install Find my Phone/Icloud/Offline. How to prevent others access my email and data ? Or how to remote lost mode/locking phone ?

suyantosdf wrote:
I lost my Iphone 5 today in Johor Bahru. Not install Find my Phone/Icloud/Offline. How to prevent others access my email and data ? Or how to remote lost mode/locking phone ?
If you didn't enable find my iphone in icloud settings on your phone, then you can't do a lost mode or lock your phone.
I would assume you had a passcode on your phone to lock it. If you didn't then start changing your passwords.
Report the lost to your phone carrier - local authorities.

Computer locks up when I try to access Earthlink email using firefox.

My computer locks up when I try to access Earthlink email. Must shut off computer with power button and restart. I can access Earthlink email using Internet Explorer only.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== a couple of weeks ago

Does this help:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs#Hang_loading_websites

How to lock a single email?

Hello everybody over there. I wonder how can I lock a single email in Mail? I need to lock a three-month account paper sent by my bank because my Mac is used by my girlfriend as well. Any idea?

Dave Sawyer wrote:
There is no way included in Mac OS X to prevent anyone who has access to your user account from seeing any given message in Mail. If you don't want your girlfriend reading specific email messages, it's probably most practical to just save them somewhere outside of Mail and delete them from Mail. Or as has been suggested give her a separate Mac OS X user account and then log out of yours when you're not using your computer.
And no, there's no way to prevent Spotlight from being able to find any given file in a user account unless you place that file in a secure disk image or use another security utility such as Espionage which says it can also lock mail, though I don't know if can lock a single message (I think it only locks folders which would mean it possible could lock a mailbox, but not just a single message).
Regards.
There is a way to prevent Spotlight from searching single locations and that is through System Preferences>Spotlight>Privacy. I added the mailbox wherein that email currently is. I thought I could lock an email as I can with any folder on my Mac. Espionage is nice, but you are right as it only locks folders, not single messages.
Thank you.

Removing access to email and other information

A family member gave their phone away to a friend and (mistakenly) thought that deleting all of the information on the phone one by one (as opposed to doing the restore) would be sufficient. I think access to email and other information might still be present on the phone. Is there a way to disable access to the email account and other information remotely somehow?

Change the password for the email account, which will prevent the friend from downloading any new messages received at the incoming mail server for the account.
Without the passcode lock feature enabled, there is no way to prevent someone from accessing any data that is available on the iPhone.
Restoring the iPhone as a new iPhone is one option. The iPhone also includes an erase all contents and settings option, which is a secure erase.

Uverse internet cancelled locked out of email account

Had to cancel my uverse internet. Been locked out of email since the first of the month and keep getting dicked around by att and uverse. final bill is paid, was told that after that is done, i get access. still no access. what the??

Hi ,
I am sorry about the issues you are having accessing your E-mail account, but I will be glad to help. I will be sending you a private message to gather more information and work on getting you back into your account.
-ATTU-verseCare

Why is there no easy way to lock or passcode email on macbook pro, aside from locking entire computer or screen saver?

I have searched Support for answers to this but many similar questions seem to go unanswered. Why is it not possible for Apple to provide a simple way to lock and unlock email on the mac so that others don't have access to it and apps can't access email and contacts. With all the concerns for privacy these days, it seems we should be able to deny access to our email and contact lists with advanced and easy privacy settings. Especially if family members or friends have access to the computer, there should be a better way to just close and password protect or lock access easily without having to log off and on as a different user? Thanks. This seems to have been a recurring question for years!

Not just your email, but all your other files as well -- your entire computer can be protected by setting an option in:
System Preferences > Security ...
... require password after: immediately after sleep or screensaver begins (and you can choose longer time settings off a list as you wish).
When you come back to your Mac, the screensaver does not yield until you enter your password.
Mac OS X 10.6: Locking your computer screen

Locked out of email account

Rang help desk wednesday15th July 5pm to advise i am locked out of email account upon return from OSWas advised yes, I was locked out due to hack attempt and that I would receive call/email (to gmail account) with 48 hrs to advise on how I could gain access to email account.Rang Thurs 16th July to again se how it was going, was told to wait untill Fri 17th for information to be sent.Used live chat to help desk 17th July 5pm to see what was going on.Yes, I am locked out and I would be advised within 4 business days of what was happening.4 business days with weekend = 1 week. And that was just to tell me what was going on, not an actual fix.This is my business email.I have 3 weeks of emails from clients, contractors and customers awaiting my action.I have wasted 3 plus hours trying get a answer.This is a problem of Telstras making.There is no weather issue holding up fix. There is no cable or harware that needs a tech to go and fix. This is a procedual problem that suits Telstras insterests, not mine. Telstra seems unwilling to fix this problem.Any attempt to have it escallated or get someone to call me that can solve the problem is refused.Appalling.

DrQwuerty90, tried the complaints way, no luck, again just got the service rep repeating back what was on his screen.4 business is not to solve, it was 4 business days to advise what was going on.4 business days to solve a internal process fault that they control?Really? This is the best they can do? No work around, no offer to help setup a alternative email account, to redirect email to this? Is it that hard?Telstra is more interested in observing it's processess, not reviewing them to assist customers or intervening in these processes.I'm just a small business who has to bow and scrape to the almighty process that Telstra has decreed is written in stone and wow to any one who dares says.."This is not good enough"Off to Ombudsman

Can't access recent Emails from mail tile in window 8.1

Can't access recent Emails from mail tile in window 8.1. Everything working fine until yesterday. I can get my Emails by going to google Chrome and accessing my gmail but I like just hitting the mail tile in 8.1. Also is the start
of something bad onmy computer?

Hi,
Could you please explain a bit for the " mail tile " mentioned here?
If you mean to access e-mail with the Mail APP, and have issues when using it, we may first take a try with the
Apps troubleshooter.
More information regarding mail APP troubleshooting, please check the below TechNet Wiki:
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If any further help needed, please feel free to update here.
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HT1918 How can I change my rescue email. I am trying to change my email for my Apple account because I can no longer access the email on the account. My only email I use is my rescue email and it will not allow me to change my Apple ID email to my rescue

How can I change my rescue email or get rid of it? I need to change my email under my apple ID to the email that is my rescue email. It won't allow me to have the same email. I only have one email address and can no longer access the email address under my apple ID

Welcome to the Apple community.
Once you have created a rescue address, you cannot delete it, nor can you change it to the same address as used by your ID. There are numerous providers you can get additional email addresses from, such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Google etc etc.

How can i access an email account on TB from a separate computer without deleting/modifying how the other account is setup

I want to be able to access another email account that is set up as a POP account on TB, but I do not want to modify how the other email account is set up. My co-worker and I often need to access each others emails. Is it simply a matter of adding the email account on my computer as a POP, without moving his emails? Or would this require changing his account to IMAP? When i set up his TB account, I made it a POP so there are no messages on the server at the moment. What I don't want is for his emails to move from his computer to mine.
(He's new to TB and that would drive him crazy - I already did that when I switched him from Outlook)
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''Is it simply a matter of adding the email account on my computer as a POP''
Yes. And make sure to check the option to leave messages on the server prior to accessing the account.
Having said that, I think it is a very bad idea to share an account that way.
Note that this will give you permanent access to your co-worker's account.
In addition you're not only storing your own messages on your computer, but also all your co-worker's messages.
The same is true for him if he does the same.

Thunderbird is repeatedly crashing and I cannot access downloaded emails. Latest version. What can I do to fix this?

Since yesterday I have been unable to access my emails in Thunderbird. Every time I try to open the program (on iMac OS X 10.9.5), it crashes repeatedly. It seems to manage to send a crash report each time. Just now I was able to read one email before it crashed but usually it doesn't even get that far. Please help! I have so much of my life stored in there and I need to be able to regain access.

Please post your crash IDs here. see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-crash-reporter#w_viewing-crash-reports
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How do I access multiple email accounts

I just got my Bionic a few days ago and have set up multiple email accounts (work, gmail, yahoo). When I click the "email" icon only one account appears. I can't seem to find the inbox, etc for any of the other accounts. The only time I can find those messages is when a new message comes in and I get notified of it. Then I can catch the other messages.
How do I access the inboxes for all the accounts? This must be obvious but i'm missing it.

Questions are typically followed by a question mark. My answer answered your question.
Firefox doesn't do email, so there are no "Firefox email accounts". If you are accessing "email" with Firefox, you are using web mail. Some web mail services don't allow for direct access, they want their users to access their email from a "portal" or "main" page and will re-direct any attempt to load an "internal" web site page back to the main page.
As far as loading 3 different web mail accounts at the same time, if they are in the same domain it won't work on Firefox without a Firefox addon. http://br.mozdev.org/multifox/
IOW, if those three email accounts all with Yahoo, without that add-on you would have to logon to each email account separately and log out of the first before logging into the 2nd. Then log out of the 2nd before logging into the 3rd. Firefox isn't capable of having multiple session cookies for simultaneous logon's to the same server. That add-on provides that "multiple sessions cookies" feature.

I can't access my email. I have joined iCloud. The phone asks for my Apple ID and Password. I put them in to be told the account already exists, but that's as far as I get. What do I do?

I can't access my email. I have joined iCloud. When I press mail I get a series of providers. I click iCloud. It asks for my Apple id and password. I provide these to be told this account already exists and I can get no further. What am I doing wrong?

Sorry everyone - I have solved my own question - needed to go through Hotmail account of course.

Both my iphone 4s and my ipad3 will not connect to the server when trying to access my email account. Why, and how do I fix it.

Since 29/10/2012 my iphone 4s and more recently my ipad 3 will not connect to the server when trying to access my email account. All I get is an error message saying that 'cannot get mail, connection to the server failed' I hadnt changed any settings it just happened. I have since done a complete re-boot on the ipad but to no avail. Anybody got any suggestions?

No. Everything was working fine and then it wasn't. I hadn't changed any settings or switched either one off. When the phone stopped working properly I ignored it because I always have my ipad with me but that just sopped working properly and now I am stuffed. I have tried most solutions suggested on here even wiping the ipad clean and re-booting. I did this exactly the same way as when I first got it but still no joy. The same with the phone.

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