Protect Your Email in Outlook Express with a Password

Outlook Express was discontinued with Windows XP in April 2014. The application is no longer available for download; it's been subsequently replaced with the Mail app for Windows 10. Outlook Express will not run on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10.

OE provided a simple and mild, but not entirely ineffective, method to prevent others from accessing the emails stored in folders through password-protecting an identity within the OE application.

To protect your email in Outlook Express with a password:

• Select File | Identities | Manage Identities from the menu.
• Highlight your identity.
• Click Properties.
• Make sure Require a password is checked.
• Type the desired password under New Password and Confirm New Password.
• Click OK.
• Click OK again.
• Finally, select Close.

To remove the password you have set for an identity in Outlook Express:

• Select File | Identities | Manage Identities from the menu.
• Highlight the desired identity.
• Click Properties.
• Make sure Require a password is not checked.
• Click OK.