Hi, I want to pass my yahoo password which is getting from orchestrator into a secure string variable yahoopwd. but unable to pass this variable into String type input for smtp mail. please suggest secureway. Below screenshot working correctly but unable to pass yahoopwd variable to smtp password…

You solution lies here: [image] Convert SecureString to String - Get Secured Credential Help As Genfour suggested we need to create an activity that returns a string from a SecureString. Until then String plainStr = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(string.Empty, secureSt…

Agree Nadim, But is it secure?..because i can see my password…

The smtp takes a string variable itself. So, you assign to a string variable using the logic in thread and then use that assign in the smtp password. Your assign you can keep Private enabled.

Do let me know if its what you need

implemented correctly as per your suggestion. Thanks Nadim…

Hi. I would highly recommend not using an Assign activity to store the securestring to a string, because it will be stored in memory or outputted while in debug. You can however, check the “Private” box on the Assign to hide it. I would recommend converting the securestring to string directly in th…

I tried converting a secure string into a string using the .ToString method within the password field of the Send SMTP Activity. It doesn’t work. I found another method suggested by a UiPath employee that is more secure than the method suggested by nadim.warsi.

Regardless of these tricks and workarounds, it is still a risk. The SMTP and IMAP activities must and should accept a secure string variable as the input. That alone will give more credibility to our bots.

Here is a detailed article on that :slight_smile: [image] How To Convert SecureString DataType To String DataType In UiPath Almost all the processes fetch the credentials from Windows Credentials or Orchestrator. But the Mail activities that the UiPath provide us accepts only the string…

How to pass SecureString variable as String format variable in SMTP Mail

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