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You're kidding, but this is Google Mail today. I've pretty much given up on sending executables.
by revelation 9y ago
You're kidding, but this is Google Mail today. I've pretty much given up on sending executables.
- nfriedly 9y agoIf you zip it and change the file extension, gmail will let it through. My friends and I occasionally send each other .googlesdumb files.
- Cerium 9y agoWe send .renametozip files.
- Certhas 9y agoIt will now also not allow sending .js files. Or zip files containing .js. So much for emailing a draft of a web application to a colleague. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en To protect you against potential viruses and harmful software, Gmail doesn't allow you to attach certain types of files, including: > Certain file types (listed below), including their compressed form (like .gz or .bz2 files) or when found within archives (like .zip or .tgz files) > Documents with malicious macros > Archives whose listed file content is password protected > Password protected archives whose content is an archive File types you can't include as attachments: .ADE, .ADP, .BAT, .CHM, .CMD, .COM, .CPL, .EXE, .HTA, .INS, .ISP, .JAR, .JS (NEW), .JSE, .LIB, .LNK, .MDE, .MSC, .MSI, .MSP, .MST, .NSH .PIF, .SCR, .SCT, .SHB, .SYS, .VB, .VBE, .VBS, .VXD, .WSC, .WSF, .WSH
- thanksgiving 9y agoI wouldn't blame them because there is so much "easy" bad things people do except that all the ad networks apparently allow an advertiser to run whatever JavaScript they want in a third party website. I would be in their side if they disallowed JavaScript in ads.
- hiptobecubic 9y agoWhy are you emailing source code around in 2017 anyway?