I use smtp module and found that it requires SMTP Authentication when we send email to external. The problem is that the password field was not encrypted. Is there a way to encrypt the password so that no one could see it?

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franz
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What do you mean when you said encrypt the password? If you mean to encrypt while you submit the form to save it, then the only way would be to use HTTPS with SSL. If you mean to store encrypted, that doesn't make much sense, since the module will need it unencrypted to make the SMTP negotiation.

As long as the database access is correctly restricted, there is no need to worry. The SMTP negotiation may use SSL or TLS if the server supports, so this transmission will be encrypted.