The first time I tried to send archived files to/from a Gmail email account was one month ago and I noticed that you cannot send these kinds of files. I tried multiple times and failed always.
If I send an email to a Gmail account, I get a reply with the text message:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
anemailaddress@gmail.com
Viewing the email source, I found out this:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;anemailaddress@gmail.com Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;552-5.7.0 This message was blocked
because its content presents a potential 552-5.7.0 security issue.
Please visit 552-5.7.0
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6590 to review our
552 5.7.0 message content and attachment content guidelines.
m3si23238476wjw.33 - gsmtp
The archived files I tried were .zip, .rar, no password, with password, encrypted. None of them worked. The archive contained a Kicad project.
Is there a way to circumvent this?
Best Answer
You should try with 7zip, which use "7z" file format. The mail server in my school blocked .exe and .vbs files when they were zipped but not when they were 7zipped. So in the case of some files are not allowed by Gmail to be send or receive, it might pass the checking. http://www.7-zip.org/