Hi Danny

I'm using windows 2000

I want to stop other uses on the same computer from scanning some email
files stored on my hard drive. 

Ideally the email program will handle multiple mail boxes and sort mail
into different mail stores with some mail boxes secured against
unauthorized reading.


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Roy
Tauranga
New Zealand
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> -----Original Message-----
> Define "stores mail so it's password protected" and list what
> operating system you're using.  If you have a password protecting your
> machine account, store mail locally, and use file system permissions,
> then your mail's effectively password protected regardless of what
> mail program you use.  If you want the mailstore to actually be
> passwrod protected because you don't trust other users of the same
> machine, then you'll only have a marginal level of security even if
> you use some weak encryption scheme.  For "real" security, go buy one
> of those USB pen drives with a capacity large enough to store as much
> email as you intend to store (and then some, since we always
> underestimate storage requirements :)) and set your mail program to
> put your profile/mail store on that drive.  There's no password to
> worry about, and physical security trumps "passwords" every time.
> 

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