Outlook Express or 2007?

Yozz76 · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:28

I'm fortunate enough to have been able to purchase MS Office 2007 for my home PC at a very low price. Is an enterprise solution which my employer has signed up to.

I have now installed this. I am a fan of Office 2007 and am familiar with it as I use it at work.

However, as much as I want to keep the Outlook 2007 application on my home PC I'm struggling to password protect multiple email accounts in the way that Outlook Express allowed. Basically, I'm hoping that it is possible to configure Outlook 2007 so that it prompts you upon launch to select the account you wish to access and enter a password to do so. Does anyone know if this is possible? If so, how do you configure this?

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:31

I'm honestly not trolling when I say... get Mozilla Thunderbird.

Unless you need to hook into some Exchange based work e-mail or something, in which case that probably won't work.

Subliminal Aura · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:32

Thunderbird

Hamish · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:34

vonhelmet said:
I'm honestly not trolling when I say... get Mozilla Thunderbird.

Unless you need to hook into some Exchange based work e-mail or something, in which case that probably won't work.

I tried thunderbird the other day and it is absolutely horrible! it looks like outlook 97 or something. I much prefer Outlook 2007's interface.

Hamish · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:34

and in answer to your question: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052423751033.aspx

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:35

Hamish said:
I tried thunderbird the other day and it is absolutely horrible! it looks like outlook 97 or something. I much prefer Outlook 2007's interface.

Form or function... Or get Outlook to work. Can't help you with the latter I'm afraid.

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:35

Hamish said:
and in answer to your question: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052423751033.aspx

You seriously have to restart Outlook to check e-mail on another account?

That's hilariously bad.

Hamish · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:36

vonhelmet said:
You seriously have to restart Outlook to check e-mail on another account?

That's hilariously bad.

Erm no, different profile - it is a completely different setup file. You can have as many accounts as you like in one profile

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:38

Hamish said:
Erm no, different profile - it is a completely different setup file. You can have as many accounts as you like in one profile

Ah, OK, that makes more sense.

metalmackey · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:40

I personally use and like Windows Live Mail

Hamish · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:41

vonhelmet said:
Form or function... Or get Outlook to work. Can't help you with the latter I'm afraid.

Form and function working together make it easier to use. I like the way in outlook how emails are grouped by day and have the sender and subject on different lines. doing that allows me to have a 3 column layout with Folders | Messages | message text which i find is much more space efficient on my widescreen monitor.
Not to mention all the extra features such as being able to follow-up and categorise messages which is useful when you get 50+ emails a day.

Gall1987 · 15 Dec 2009 at 23:43

metalmackey said:
I personally use and like Windows Live Mail

This

Yozz76 · 16 Dec 2009 at 00:05

Hamish said:
and in answer to your question: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052423751033.aspx

Appreciate that thanks, has enabled me to configure so that I am prompted which account to select when launching Outlook 2007. However, can't for the life of me figure out how to make it ask you to enter a password before actually accessing an account!

_lecro_ · 16 Dec 2009 at 00:20

Windows Live Mail

CaptainCrash · 16 Dec 2009 at 12:19

Yozz76 said:
Appreciate that thanks, has enabled me to configure so that I am prompted which account to select when launching Outlook 2007. However, can't for the life of me figure out how to make it ask you to enter a password before actually accessing an account!

If you have several users each with their own email account (I can't think of another reason for wanting to enter a password for each one seperately), ideally they should each have a password-protected Windows user account, which will cause Outlook to generate completely independent data files for each user in their respective profile folders. You could then just use "switch user" from the Start menu (if an account's already logged in), enter your password, launch Outlook and away you go.

If you want the PST files themselves to be password-protected for still more security, it's File > Data File Management > Data Files > (select PST file) > Settings > Change Password. If you want to be prompted for a password each time Outlook starts, uncheck "Save this password in your password list", but it's not really necessary unless other people have access to that particular Windows account.