Gmail does not allow executable attachments

Published 09-12-2005 8:25 AM | jokiz
i'm surprised to know just now that gmail does not allow compressed attachment files containing executables (sending and receiving).  thumbs up for security, now i have to rename my installer files to a non-exe, :p...
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# keithrull said on September 11, 2005 4:47 PM:

Yeah, they dont allow executable and dlls to be attachments. they even read the contents of zip files to check if it contains those type of binaries and if you change your extension to .txt, it would put the contents of that file to the message. so if you rename a executable to .txt, you will see tons of garbage appended to your message. :)

# jokiz said on September 14, 2005 6:13 PM:

ic, well thanks for those additional info keith...