Gmail rants

[RYCeT]

I've been using gmail for my personal email and loved it. I just found out that gmail does not allow sending .exe attachment

, that's sucks. I know they probably disable it for security reason, however, they should require person who want to send .exe file able to do it through some hoops (input graphic numbers etc) so it would deter spammers or virus infected users.

 

[NeObliviscaris]

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Originally Posted by RYCeT /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've been using gmail for my personal email and loved it. I just found out that gmail does not allow sending .exe attachment , that's sucks. I know they probably disable it for security reason, however, they should require person who want to send .exe file able to do it through some hoops (input graphic numbers etc) so it would deter spammers or virus infected users.

Yeah, captcha would be good. What about .zipping it? I usualyl rename to .ex1 or soemthing, and it lets me do it!

 

[RYCeT]

Well, the person I send the email is not familiar w/ computers so I tried to make it as easy as possible. I hate it that I have to send it through my yahoo account since I only use that for dealing with online purchases.

 

[beerguy0]

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Originally Posted by RYCeT /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've been using gmail for my personal email and loved it. I just found out that gmail does not allow sending .exe attachment , that's sucks. I know they probably disable it for security reason, however, they should require person who want to send .exe file able to do it through some hoops (input graphic numbers etc) so it would deter spammers or virus infected users.

Our network at work doesn't allow .exe files, or .bat files. It strips the attachments from the email. Just rename the file to.txt, and tell the person to change the extension. That shouldn't be that difficult? Or make a self-extracting zip file.