dawnnolan said:
I've tried to password protect my personal folders in outlook 2003 by right
clicking on the personal folder, select properties and then put a password
in, but it doens't work. Does anyone know how to password protect personal
folders in outlook 2003.
"doesn't work" was supposed to provide all the details that account for the
failure?
The password is asked only when you start Outlook. The password is inside
the .pst file so it is when Outlook loads that message store that it prompts
for the password. If you leave Outlook running then the message store
remains loaded so you won't get prompted again. You must exit and reload
Outlook to again get the password prompt. Since you are NOT supposed to be
sharing a Windows login with other users (i.e., each user gets their own
separate Windows account), why do you care if you are prompted only once
during your entire Windows session on the first load of Outlook?
Mail applet in Control Panel
Data files
Select the message store
Settings
Change Password
Did you select the "Save this password in your password list" option? Or
did you leave it unselected?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829971
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA012308911033.aspx
If selected, you don't get prompted because the cached password for the
message store is saved under your Windows account. If you want it to appear
every time you load Outlook then you need to deselect this option.
