Password protecting mail application.

Hello,
I would like to know if i can password protect my mail application, just the way outlook express can be done.I would not like to create a different user
acccount for doing the same.
Thanks in advance

You could make Mail ask for a password before fetching new mail or sending mail by altering your keychain preferences. Either prevent Mail from storing your email password in the keychain or let it do that but make sure that your keychain has a different password than your user account, is not set to automatically unlock on login and locks after a very short idle time.
If you have an imap account and leave your messages on the server, this effectively prevents access to your mail without a password. If you use pop and/or download messages to you local folders, though, anything already downloaded will be accessible without a password.
- cfr

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Hi, just wondering if there is a way to password protect mail? Our iPad is shared in our home with my children who keep deleting messages and sending stuff so was wondering how to protect mail so they can't get in. Thanks!

The Mail app can't currently be protected via Settings > General > Restictions, but there is this work-around. Alternatively you could see if there are any third-party email apps have a password option, or you could access your account via Safari (you could create a homescreen shortcut for your account's login page)

Does anyone know how to password protect Mail from the applications folder

I know you can password protect with a screensaver, is that the only way?

That is simply because you have checked an option to remember the password. Open Mail preferences, click on the Accounts icon in the toolbar. In the dialog under your username you should see your password (not displayed.) Remove the password entry. From now on Mail will prompt for a password before attempting to fetch mail. This does not mask the Inbox in any way but it does prevent anyone from getting new mail without a password. There is no direct way to actually password protect the entire Inbox.
I'm still not clear as to why you need to do this or what specifically you want to accomplish. I don't know if simply logging out of your account when you aren't by the computer would not satisfy your security need or requiring a password to wake up the computer via the screensaver. Maybe you could explain things more to us.

Password protect Mail on iPad

Just got a brand new iPad. Is there a way natively or via another app to password protect the Mail application? I'd love to be able to let others use the iPad for internet browsing or games, but with Mail if you click it you can get right into all my email accounts with all my data. Would love to be able to have extra security on top of the Mail program to even get it to open up.
Many thanks in advance for the help.

Exactly, parental control, but its just not as developed of a feature as I would have hoped for. Seems like there's lot of questions on the boards dating back for years on this where most people just gave up. But that's one heck of a business model, Apple wanting me to buy a $800 device so a little kid can play an educational game for maybe an hour or two a week
Sounds like Kyle might have an idea of something.

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I would like to Mail to ask me for a password before opening....that way other users of my system won't be able to read my email....is this possible?

You just may have to log into and out of your computer each time you use Mail, if you are not on a network. But the newer Macs have the capapability of being able to have several users that log into and out of their own Desktops.
Although, this may help from Mail Help:
"About Keychain passwords in Mail
When you set up a user account in Mac OS X using the Accounts preferences pane, a keychain is automatically created with the same password. Your keychain can store all the passwords you use to access different resources, including your passwords for the Mail application and for each email account. When you connect to a network server, open an email account, or access any password-protected item that is keychain-aware, your keychain provides the password so you don't have to type it.
Your keychain is unlocked automatically when you log in to Mac OS X. Use the application Keychain Access to manage keychain passwords.
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I realise that there is a temporary way to prevent this happening by unticking the 'mail' option in the spotlight search settings menu, but how do you permanently delete the emails? I assumed that when I hit delete then emptied the trash box, the mails were gone for good. But finding that they remain stored in some hidden place and can be easily accessed is very annoying! In fact, finding that other users can quickly change the settings back and have free access to my email is rather disturbing anyway, especially as there is no way to password protect my email account once i activate the mail app. the apple mail app is linked to my yahoo account, but within yahoo mail there seems to be no problem in regards to deleted mail being stored somewhere else, only within the apple app system.
So i guess id like to know, is there some way to password protect my account or do I just need to keep deleting my account before lending the ipad to someone else and then reinstating it? And is there any way to properly delete emails for good?
I would be happy just to go without the mail app and log in directly through yahoo in Safari, except that I find the notification alert when I receive a new mail very handy!!

[edit] I dragged the email I sent through the MBP Mail app (under MAILBOXES > Sent > Yahoo!) to the highlighted Sent folder (YAHOO! > Sent), and now it shows up on all Yahoo Sent folders (iPad app, web browser, phone app). Not entirely solved the issue but will use web browser to sent future emails to keep everything in sync.

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Is it possible to set a password for the entire Mail application? ie. when I open it up, it asks for the password?

You can set the email account PW to not be stored in keychain. That would stop mail from contacting the email servers.
Why would anyone else be on your account anyways? If no one can go on your account, they can't get anything in your Mail program (there is no such thing as perfect security, however).

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Hi all,
I convinced my dad to use Mail for his mail client, but he wants to be able to password protect it so no one can just open Mail and read all his e-mail.
I'm not sure this is doable but I wanted to ask, thanks.

I'm sorry but I'm not following...
I'm trying this on my system so when I connect to his Mac I'll know what to do.
But for example I have three email accounts setup in Mail.app, I believe in Keychain Access there is an entry for both the incoming and outgoing server, totally 6. So I have to do what you said to each of those entries?
And if so how is that going to prompt Mail.app to ask for a password whenever it's opened?
Sorry I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this.

Password protect iTunes application to prevent changes?

Hi all,
I am looking to increase my ITUNES security on my home PC to prevent changes in ITUNES match or my music being removed from icloud by mistake by others when they use this PC or it is stolen etc.
I.E when i open the itunes application, it will prompts/ask me for a password before proceeding further.
I have home sharing enabled and i dont want to interfer or restrict this, however sometimes on my laptop other access itunes and on occassions have caused music in the cloud to be deleted! Doesnt help when i have disposed of the original cd's and its not avaiable via the itunes store.
Any ideas/comments would be grealty appreciated to help me protect?
I did go to edit/prefercnes and ticked the "require password" button in home sharing, but affects home sharing only, does not prompt me for password on my PC.
Cheers Folks
Simon.

You can backup your library right now. You can send the password protection idea to iTunes Feedback, but I doubt it would ever be implemented.
Don't dispose of your original CDs. If you sell or give them away then you should also delete the tracks that you ripped from them.
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I would like to password protect specific applications i.e. SMS and Mail on my iPhone. Is this possible?

Yellowfish wrote:
I would like to password protect specific applications i.e. SMS and Mail on my iPhone. Is this possible?
No. You can lock your main screen, but thats about it.

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Can you password protect your email so when you want to access any of your mail accounts you must enter a password? In other words before I can see my mail I must enter a password.

On Oct 10, 2007, Matthew Morgan answered this question (discussion is now archived). I wanted to inquire further to his comment:
    Matthew Morgan Los Angeles, CA
     Re: Password protect "Mail"
     Oct 10, 2007 7:55 AM (in response to Chester Harlan)
     Cherster,
     You could go to Settings>General>Passcode Lock and set a password to secure all your      personal data.
Matthew - in which program are our suggesting going to Settings?
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Urgent...help password protection...

hello...
Anyone out there know the coding for password protection using application....for example the user will type in the username and password and a statement will come out to validate the password...
Thanks a lot..
-pal-

Hi! A simple way of approaching the matter is to read the user name and the password from the GUI, then get the password from the database corresponding to the username and compare the two. You'll need to use JDBC for the latter.
Here are a couple of points to remember. You may want to determine if your password scheme is case-sensitive or not. Secondly, you may want to use the setEchoChar() method (if you're using a java.awt.TextField object for getting the password from the user) so that the password is not echoed to the screen while the user is typing it.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask if something's not too clear.
Cheers!

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Hi,
If you create a new account and go into the parental controls section and select 'Finder' you can configure it to not allow burning CD's etc, and also control access to specific apps.
The only problem with this is that it restricts access completely and does not allow for the entering of an Admin id and password which, I think, would not do what you are meaning. You could also go down this route by setting up a seperate account with all these restrictions which you log into when you leave your machine alone so allowing people some access to your computer but not to your account.
Have you thought about just locking the screen by requesting a password when the machine wakes up or for closing the screensaver? (These are set through the Security preferences pane.) If this is what you want to do then remember to disable automatic login if it is enabled.
If you could give some more details about your specific use that might help with getting an approriate answer.
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ps There may be some apps around that can do this but I am not currently aware of them. Other people may know of some.

I would like to have an email account that is password-protected that I can access on my Mac, Iphone and Ipad, separate from the Mail application, with an alert button that indicates unread messages

I would like to have an email account that is password-protected that I can access on my Mac, Iphone and Ipad, separate from the Mail application, with an alert button that indicates unread messages

Try a search... I'm sure if you put forth a little effort you can find a solution that will work for you.

How would I password protect the MAIL application?

I have never used passwords - but what I wanted to do was put a password (somehow) on the MAIL application so that no one can use it but me - in other words, when I click the application, it asks for a password before turning on. I want this to happen even when I am in my own (admin) account - is this possible?

This is not possible; you'd have to setup different accounts for each user, and then limit their access to various applications and/or files.
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