PassWord for Mail?

Is there a way to setup mail to ask for a password BEFORE! opening mail? I don't like the fact that anyone can open my mail if i'm away from my computer. Thanks

Chances are your username and password used to login to your mail is stored in your "login" Keychain. Items on your "login" keychain can be used by apps simply because you have logged in. In Applications/Utilities there is a application called Keychain Access. You can create a new keychain (give it any name that you want) and move the mail related usernames and passwords to the new keychain. That way, OS X will prompt you for the password for that keychain (you can set it to your normal login password) before it can hand off usernames and passwords from that keychain to Mail.app
The other suggestions that people have mentioned are good, too. One way to "lock" your system without having to log of is to go to fast user switching (if you have it enabled in the menu bar) and select "Login Window".
-j

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