You've at least 3 solutions to solve your problem :

1st is to put pmail on a usb drive and keep the drive in your pocket when you don't use it

2nd is to prevent other users to download your mail (but they can read the mails you've already downloaded), you just have to blank your pop password, when you launch PM, after having typed your username PM will ask you to enter the pop password for your default identity (or for the identity you choosed to start with, using the -ID command line parameter). When you try to download mails from another pop account set in another identity, if you've blanked the pop password PM will also prompt you for it.

3rd is to use the NTFS rights (only if you use win2k, XP or Vista). For me it is the *good* solution. You just have to give the following rights like this (windows administrator, who should be also PM administrator has full control on everything) : Users have he right "Read" on the pmail.usr file and "Modifiy" on their home mailbox  directory, nothing on others' home mailbox directories. If you want to use the internal transport system of PM (the hability to send a local mail to another user) you have also to give the users the right "Write" to all the home mailbox directories (easy to do by creating a group of PM users and giving the right to that group). Informations : the pmail.usr file is located in C:\PMAIL\MAIL (set by default except if you changed it), the home mailbox directories are directories located under C:\PMAIL\MAIL (except if you changed it).

The solution to change your account name seems to me not to be a good one, by uisng the menu entry Adresses/User management your kids can read all the PM account names of your system. If you want to change your username the solution is to change it in the pmail.usr file and to change the name of your home mailbox directory (take care to the number of characters if you didn't change ~8 to ~N with pconfig.exe, but that's another story).

HTH

Hi,

  I'm using v4.41 of Pmail and would like to know how to change, at least the "Username" I type in to get into my account of Pmail on the family PC's desktop. Or, can I somehow set a password for it? We recently ( via help here-Thanks!) were able to set up and use Pmail from the Limited User ( net facing ) account. So know anyone can access my mail, knowing my Username....Any ideas will be appreciated.

[quote user="patmac"]Any ideas will be appreciated.[/quote]

How about using Pegasus Mail on a USB thumb drive?
 
http://www.mailhilfe.de/epost694.html

I didn't see the original thread, so don't know how the set-up would have been done.  But if the mail is stored on the hard-drive in a directory that's accessible from the limited user account it can be grabbed by anyone, anyway.  For example, if the mailfolders are in:

C:\Documents and Settings\some_username\Application Data\Pegasus 

what's to stop anyone from simply going there with Windows Explorer? They've got to have access to that folder if they're using the account "some_username".  All they've got to do is check "Show hidden files and folders" in Explorer's preferences.

If security is a concern here perhaps it's best not to store the mail on the machine. Running it from a USB stick will be slower, but it's quite usable that way.
 

Mike, Thanks. I know the limited User account has access, I just figured out how to do that with the help of everyone here. This is a low level security request. The kids know my Username because we have been using Pegasus since they were born. If I can just change my Username somehow ( may have to reload Pegasus?), this will deter them enough from thinking they can just hop on and check Mom and Dad's mail. There is never anything that mission critical ( or inappropriate ) that they can't end up seeing it.[:)]