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Re: GMail: Illegal Attachment Causes Bounced Messages when Sending EXE files

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:11:41 -0000

Put it into a word document or something. Another option is take a picture and paste the code into the comment section of the jpeg file.

Re: GMail: Illegal Attachment Causes Bounced Messages when Sending EXE files

Nick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:41:31 -0000

I have to send a JS code which some hacker placed on a client's website. GMail doesnt let me send that even if I copy the code to a text file and rename it to .bak as you explained.

Re: GMail: Illegal Attachment Causes Bounced Messages when Sending EXE files

Vince Grey — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:05:43 -0000

You can also zip the file twice, as in a zip file in a zip file. As it's that stupid simple to get around, I don't know why they even bother...

Re: GMail: Illegal Attachment Causes Bounced Messages when Sending EXE files

Idiots — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:55:49 -0000

And there I was thinking that Microsoft was the only idiot company in the world...