Gmail dislikes zip attachments?

PB · Post by PB » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:22 pm

Just tried to send a zip file to myself at my Gmail account and it got bounced
back as "Illegal Attachment" -- WTF? I did this test after a friend said he got
the same problem when sending me a mail. Anyone else got this problem?

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:28 pm

My daughter just sent me a zip of some new pics of her and her hubby on the 22nd, got it in my gmail account no problems.

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:33 pm

I think it fails if you zip an exe or any file type they consider an illegal attachment. That happened to me.

PB · Post by PB » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:45 pm

Thanks for the replies... yep, it fails with any zip containing an exe... that
makes it useless for my purposes now.

Such a shame. Gmail = bad.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:55 pm

You can rename the .exe to a .pdf or .txt (or just add a .pdf extension)and then send it.

The recipient can then change the extension and use it.

Obviously, this wouldn't be a good way to distribute programs but it works with friends or to keep backups, etc.

cheers

Post by **Fred** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:08 pm

you can rename the .zip to .zip2 as well (i dislike this GMail feature, it should be at least an option)

PB · Post by PB » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:11 pm

Renaming the zip is not an option... it's too much hassle and it's not the way
e-mail should have to work. I've got mail routing through my ISP again
now, which I didn't want to do (poor junk mail filtering) but at least I can
right-click any zip file and mail it immediately without mucking around.

PB · Post by PB » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:23 pm

Hmm, I just had a thought: Gmail probably did this to kill the "Gmail Drive"
app ( viewtopic.php?t=13945 ).

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:57 pm

You can pack it with rar, then Gmail won't mind if there is an exe in there

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:55 pm

It dislikes rar too.

It's pity but it's becoming a standard.
bye Nik

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:30 pm

I have sent rar files with exe compressed not long ago and that worked fine.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:41 pm

Just tried again, compressed a exe file using rar and sent it as an attachement using Gmail. No problem.

griz · Post by **griz** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:22 am

Just give the ZIP a password...!? Untested.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:55 am

use arj? ace? stuffit? uce? lha? tar? gzip? sqz? zoo?

Post by **freak** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:28 am

... just use a real email provider ...