Mail Stored on Unsecure Mac

Hi,
I just noticed that despite deleting mail and emptying trash (I have an ISP-provided POP account set up through Mail), the subject lines, etc. of deleted mail are showing up on a spotlight search under Mail Messages, and when you click on them, it launches the mail without a password or anything!
Is there something I can do to make my mail secure?
Thanks!
p.s. A secondary peeve is that when I launch mail it shows my inbox without even entering my password first. Thanks again.

Um....
Did you set a login password? It's there to lend security to Mail and other items in your home folder.
Just a note-why it is important to limit access to your user account, not just Mail.app: emails for each account are stored in Users/~/Library/Mail
If someone has access to your user account, even if you were to set a password on the Mail application, they could navigate to the folder and open the messages in TextEdit.
Aside from the basic login password, you can also activate FileVault, which will encrypt your home folder, preventing the recovery of information in the event the drive is stolen, but you still need to prevent others access to your logged in account.

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