Assignment 1 in Advance training

[jmart85 (Joel)]

Hi abhay,

I came up against the same problem. For certain, it is NOT good practice to share your email and password publicly.

The Send SMTP activity doesn’t accept a secure string argument which creates a problem. To be honest with you, I don’t even like putting my personal email password on Orchestrator even if there was a way to pass a secure string but that might just be me.

There is another thread on converting secure strings but it seemed “gimicky” to me and I ended up just creating a fake gmail account for this assignment only.

I would also appreciate anybody’s comments here. This issue doesn’t seem to have a clear answer.

How to use Type Secure Text

Hey @atevis You can get an easy understanding from what @Florent_Salendres Mentioned. I am just here adding some things for your understanding to get about secure string. Secure String Represents text that should be kept confidential, such as by deleting it from computer memory when no longer needed. This class cannot be inherited. SecureString is a string type that provides a measure of security. It tries to avoid storing potentially sensitive strings in process memory as plain text. The v…