After my recent clean install of Windows the back up of my emails did not work as it has in the past. I may be able to retrieve them, but it will be a tedious process.
I decided that with no emails to copy this was as good a time as any to change to Outlook, which I had been intending to do for some time.
Initially, on set up, I was asked for a password. Since then it just opens. This is unlike Thunderbird which asked for a password every time.
I don't want to put a password on the whole system, every other sensitive area, such as net banking, already have passwords in place.
In this situation, if I am broken into for example, whoever can just open the app, or client (why are email apps referred to as clients?) and read my emails. I would like a level of privacy.
So, is it possible to put a password on a single application, MS Outlook 2007 to be specific?
OS is XP Home SP3.
I have just checked Help in Outlook, and it allows the setting of a password. But it says the old password, which is the same as I was using in Thunderbird, and to log into my account with my ISP, is incorrect. I don't get it.

There is no password for Outlook. It is assumed that if you have a need to password protect Outlook, that you would be using a separate Windows user account that would then allow you to log into your Windows account and subsequently see your Outlook folders, mail, contacts, etc. Other users of the computer should also have their own Windows user account, which would then get them access to their own Outlook folders, and not yours.

Even if you are the only user of your computer, you should password protect your Windows user account.

Hi Digerati,
I agree I need to password protect Outlook.
The problem is that it asks for the old password as well as a new one. When I put in the "old" password, the one Thunderbird needed to access my emails, I get a message saying that password is invalid.
I liked Thunderbird fine for email, and I might yet revert. I want to use Outlook more for the diary/calendar aspect. To do this I could use the firewall to block Outlook from going online, but I am not sure how to do this with an Office application. If you can suggest a path that would be handy. The last thing I want is 2 email Inboxes to check. With Gmail that would make 3 and that is too many.
If you know of a good freeware diary/calendar app that would also be nice to know. There was an add on for Thunderbird called Lightning, and it was seriously naff.
Cheers

Or I could revert to Thunderbird, and use Google Calendar.

Computers are very strange things.
I just made another attempt to password Outlook, which appeared to fail due to the "old" password being wrong.
I then opened Outlook and it asked for a password. I tried the new one and it let me in.
I got what I wanted, but have NO IDEA how.

Are you saying Outlook itself is asking for a password?

Yes Outlook is asking for a password, and accepting the new password I set.
Like I said, it is weird, but I got what I wanted.

I think I was confused and thought you meant Outlook was asking for a password to get into Outlook. But you mean the password to your email account so you can send and receive email, right?

I don't blame you for being confused, I certainly was.
But now Outlook asks for a password before I can send or receive emails.

Yeah, but to be clear, it is asking for a password for that email account, not just to use Outlook, right? In other words, anyone can still view your Contacts or see your appointments, right?

Are you the only one that uses that computer? If so, why not just put a password on Windows? This way you will need to enter your password once when you start Windows. And you can set the screen saver to require the password should you step away for a bit. And of course, you can manually enable the screen saver if don't want anyone sneaking in as soon as you walk away. And then you can set the password in Outlook so it automatically enters the email account password when you hit send or want to receive email.