Hi The UiPath activity ’Send SMTP Mail Message’ needs a password in the properties pane for it to work. This password just needs to be a String but this is not a good solution as the password then will be exposed. I would like to request that it is changed so that it should be a SecureString. Than…

I would say that this should be high priority. It’s hard to explain to clients how UiPath takes security seriously when the passwords are stored in plain text.

Hello, I’m also looking forward for a solution. @badita Thank you for the suggested workaround :slight_smile:

Meanwhile, I have written a workflow for this that safely stores the password in the Windows credential manager at the first invocation (similar as you do for a general logon): SendMail.xaml (22.0 KB)

Really hoping for SecureString input in SMTP mail activity, we use this to send e-mails from the robot user, and users (process owners) have access to Orchestrator to manage their projects assets.

What I did as a workaround is created another extra string variable for password like “StrPassword” and it Solved my Problem Follow these steps Create a Variable StrPassword Then taken a assign activity and assign value for StrPassword And in value typed the string as “new System.Net.NetworkCre…

One other thought, you do not need to create a String Variable or use the Assign Activity, you can simply put the following statement into the SMTP Password Property (Field): “new System.Net.NetworkCredential(string.Empty, password).Password”

Hi, I notice that Password field in mail activities like Get IMAP Mail Messages and Send SMTP Mail Messages are just String instead of SecureString. This is disadvantageous. First of all it reveal password*. Secondly it disallow centralization of asset data. For example, I cannot centrally store p…

This is a known issue for a long time. Not sure whether there are plans to change this @badita . There is a workaround as you can pass as a secure string and only convert at the very last instance prior to entering the string into the activity. The only risk here is if someone is able to get on the …

[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, secureStr).Password should work …

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'Send SMTP Mail Message' Password - SecureString

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