No more Zip files on Gmail?
This is absolutely crazy! Gmail no longer allows you to attach zip files to your own mails!
You get an alert box stating -
"Sorry, for security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of attachment."
Well, I created the zip file that I was attaching and I know that it doesn't contain any viruses and that it doesn't pose any security threat! Why is the software overriding that???
If it was just a warning alert that it was fine - here it prevents me from sending my own (safe) mail!
Needless to say, I logged in to my (now neglected) Yahoo mail account and sent the mail from there - Yahoo proudly declared that "No virus threat detected" on the zip attachment.
[Update: The message I sent from yahoo to gmail with the zip attachment bounced back -
This is absolutely crazy! Gmail no longer allows you to attach zip files to your own mails!
You get an alert box stating -
"Sorry, for security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of attachment."
Well, I created the zip file that I was attaching and I know that it doesn't contain any viruses and that it doesn't pose any security threat! Why is the software overriding that???
If it was just a warning alert that it was fine - here it prevents me from sending my own (safe) mail!
Needless to say, I logged in to my (now neglected) Yahoo mail account and sent the mail from there - Yahoo proudly declared that "No virus threat detected" on the zip attachment.
[Update: The message I sent from yahoo to gmail with the zip attachment bounced back -
Remote host said: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment[Update: (08-Nov-2004) Gmail now allows zip attachments. ]
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