I just rename them with some strange characters, such as skypesetup.abc and the recipient puts the exe extention back in it and it works just fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordan Radic" <[email protected]> To: "screen access software with skype" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] For gmail users: important info about SkypeWatchsetup utility sending
> Hi there! > The problem with exe and zip files on Gmail exist from the day one of that > service. > Regarding unpacking of 7z files, I think that newer versions of Winzip and > Winrar are able to unpack them so there's no need for downloading or > installing 7-zip itself. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kostadin Kolev" <kostadin.kolev1985 at gmail.com> > To: "screen access software with skype" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] For gmail users: important info about > SkypeWatch setup utility sending > > >> Hello, Michele and all, >> >> GMail doesn't allow you to attach .exe (or .zip with .exe files in them) >> to the e-mails. A solution is to make the archive in .rar format, or even >> better (and free) - .7z. But that will require additional software (like >> the free 7-Zip) to unpack the archived files. >> The limitation about .exe (and .zip with .exe files within) in GMail is >> in order to protect the users against malicious attacks via attached >> executable files. That causes some inconveniences, but that's the way it >> is for now ? . >> >> Best wishes! >> Kostadin Kolev >> >> On 31.7.2009 ?. 21:44 ?., Michele Barbi wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> I am very sorry to inform gmail users that there are some troubles in >>> sending SkypeWatch setup utility. The zip file necessarily contains some >>> kinds of files that gmail antivirus considers dangerous due to their >>> extensions (*.exe, *.dll, etc.) so the server rejects the whole message. >>> So, if you primarily use a gmail account, add to procedures of yesterday >>> one more instructions. In the message body, specify another email >>> address to which try to send the file if you have a different one, or >>> the prase Skype id followed by a colon symbol and your skype name. >>> About other servers, I tested that yahoo and hotmail should not have >>> these problems. Not sure if italian or foreign domain can make a >>> difference though. >>> Bye! >>> Barbuz >>> Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the >>> latest version of skype go to >>> http://www.dlee.org/skype >>> To access tutorials and other goodies go to >>> http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html >>> thanks and have a wonderful day. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Skypeenglish mailing list >>> Skypeenglish at emissives.com >>> http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com >>> >> >> Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the >> latest version of skype go to >> http://www.dlee.org/skype >> To access tutorials and other goodies go to >> http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html >> thanks and have a wonderful day. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Skypeenglish mailing list >> Skypeenglish at emissives.com >> http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com >> > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com >
