I am working on streamlining our computer and hope to use Microsoft Outlook to help. My wife and I have seperate email accounts which our own private emails...she doesn't look at mine and I don't look at hers. We share a computer at home...and it hasn't been a big deal...

Is there a way to password protect indiviudal email accounts in outlook? What I want to do is open Outlook and have her email and my email protected...is that possible? I have found a work-around, but it is not going to work very long. I am not sure if this is going to be possible.

Hey Chad:

I think you are going to be constantly frusterated trying to manage two totally seperate accounts from inside ONE copy of Outlook. You can specify which account to check when you hit send & receive, but one account HAS to be the default. You can also specify which account to send from. But I think you'll get tired of that quickly. I'm fairly certain it is impossible to seperately password protect two seperate accounts in the same program.

Would it be too much of an inconvenience to use seperate email clients to check each account? For instance, one person could use the free program Eudora (perhaps even spring for the advertisement free version for a small fee), and the other could use Outlook? Or if Eudora doesn't do it for you, you could even use Outlook Express as a really scaled down version. This is included with Windows.

This would be a minimal investment, and would eliminate virtually all of your cross over issues.

~ Charles

I don't think there is a way to do that either (my husband and I hadthe same problem). We were using Outlook and Thunderbird by Mozilla.

Thank you both for your replies. I was afraid that it wasn't going to be super easy. I will look into your ideas Charles...thanks so much!

Actually, you can set up multiple accounts in Outlook and set them to be delivered to different "personal folder" files (each of which can be password protected). At least this can be done in Outlook 2003/2007, I'm not sure about earlier versions. A work-around for needing a default account would be to create a dummy gmail account. It's kind of an ugly solution, but it should work if you both want to use Outlook. PM/email me if you need help setting it up.

Why don't you just create 2 seperate user accounts on the computer itself?