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November 21, 2007

Not able to send .exe files in Gmail. Try this Trick!

Filed under: Web Application, Web tools — Brian @ 2:05 am

For security Gmail does not allow you to send files with .exe extension. But if you are sure your exe file is free of viruses and you want to send it then just change the file extension from .exe to .ex

This way gmail will not recognize it as an executable file and will allow you to send it.

Make sure the person you are sending this file changes the back the extension to .exe before launching it.

3 Comments »

  1. Sounds interesting and great observation :) why don’t you inform google that their security measures need to be improved more. They need to validate document file type before attaching it. :)

    Comment by steve — November 21, 2007 @ 3:12 am

  2. Hey thats great info. Thanks for sharing it. I will surely try this one. ;)

    Comment by Anand — November 21, 2007 @ 5:58 am

  3. I have tried the same with .abc extension and asked the receiver to change it after downloading and it worked well. Nice post, keep it up :)

    Comment by Saikat — November 21, 2007 @ 10:05 pm

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