Note:If you want to password protect all of your emails rather than a single mailbox
in mac mail,please read this article:How to password protect Mac Mail.
Many mac users are trying to find a solution that will allow them to password protect
single mailbox in mac mail,apparently this is not easy to achieve,because most mac
users don’t exactly know how to encrypt mailboxes,let alone where to find
Mac Mail’s folder structure.
But now with MacFort you can easily password protect just one email folder
rather than all of the emails,if you haven’t installed MacFort,click the button to
download MacFort:
And if you have already use MacFort to password protect your whole mac mail
mailboxes,please use MacFort to restore it at the first.
Now follow these 2 simple steps to achieve your goal!
First:Click “Add” in the main MacFort toolbar,a dialog will appear:
Name:whatever name you want,maybe your email account name.
Description:whatever description you want.
Locaiton:this is the important thing,click the “..” button to navigate to the
mailboxes folder, if you are using Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6, the mac mail mailboxes
path is:
/Users/your user account/Library/Mail
In Mac OS X 10.7 lion,the path is:
/Users/your user account/Library/Mail/V2
Under the mac mail mailboxes path you can see many folders inside it, find the
folder whose name contains your email account name which you want to protect,
and click “select”.For example:if i want to password protect my email account:
“MyGmail@gmail.com”,i will select the folder named “POP-MyGmail@pop.gmail.com”
under the mac mail mailboxes path.So,the location of the mailbox folder should be:
/Users/your user account/Library/Mail/POP-MyGmail@pop.gmail.com
In Mac OS X 10.7 lion,the path is:
/Users/your user account/Library/Mail/V2/POP-MyGmail@pop.gmail.com
Note:Under lion The user-level library folder is hidden by default,click
the “..” button,the select file dialog will appear,then press the keyboard shortcut:
Command-Shift-G,and type “~/library”, hit enter, and you’re there:
Second:Click “Scan” in the main MacFort toolbar,select the mailbox name
you’ve added before,click “OK” to continue.
Now,All done!-you must supply the correct password to see you email,
otherwise,the mac mail will not show your account name which is password-protected.
Have Fun!Any Suggestions and questions pls contact Support@madowsoft.com
