Until recently, Outlook Express 6.0 always asked for my mailbox identity password. (We have several identities for each user's privacy) Now when I open OE, it opens my mailbox without a password. How can I require OE to ask for my password when opening the program? I've tried File>Identities>Manage Identities>Properties>Change Password, but even with the "require password" box checked, it still opens automatically without my password. I prefer to keep my E-mail private and not allow anyone who open Outlook Express to read it. Thank you !!!

Hi Dave, Go into File>Identities>Manage Identities>Properties>Change Password and remove all the passwords, select OK, Then reboot, now reset your password and reboot when you have closed the selection box. hope this helps Dave, have a nice day.

Thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a try, but still no luck. Perhaps there is an OE update that will fix the bug. Thanks again.

Try looking under Tools|Accounts|Mail tab|Properties|servers tab. Uncheck "Remember Password". Ray

Ray's reply is about making the connection betwen the OE client and the server (effectively the 2nd part of getting OE6 running). But I think Dave's question is about having OE prompt for a password when launching one of the Identities configured to use OE on his PC (effectively the 1st part of getting OE6 running). I mention this because I am having this latter problem, following a re-install of XP Pro (incl. OE6, etc......). This re-install includes a much later set of updates and service packs, so I wonder... In any case, I will be watching this thread, and have posted this question to the M$ support newsgroup. I'll let you all know if anything useful comes up over there <g>.

I resolved my version of the problem by "simply" re-installing OE6. MS KB318378 refers. And now, with no funky registry hacks or other such scary stuff, OE6 prompts me for my Identity password when I expect it to. Maybe it will work for you too.

I have a similar problem. I added an identity that did not have a password. My original identity now has one that came from somewhere and I of course do not know what it is. The act of adding a fourth identity somehow assigned a password to the third. Any idea how to recover???