How to send exe files using Gmail!
If you are a Gmail user, you probably know that Gmail doesn’t allow you to send the executable files at all and even if you compress the exe file in a zip file, you won’t be able to send it. So, here are some of the ways of sending the exe files through Gmail :
1. Rename the extension of the file from exe to doc. For e.g. if the file name is abcd.exe then simply rename it to abcd.doc and then upload it and send it!
2. Instead of compressing the file as ZIP, compress it in some other format for e.g. RAR. If your friend can open up the RAR files then you can easily compress it as RAR and sent it!
3. Simply upload it to some free file hosting service like Rapidshare or DivShare and then send the link to the file to the friend.
All these steps are simple and you should not have any problem, but if at all you do face any problem, then feel free to leave a comment in the comment area and we’ll help you in fixing it.
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Binny V A
November 14th, 2007 at 5:52 am #
The person on the other end most know how to rename it back to .exe. This is not an issue if you send it to a techie – but for normal people, its more troublesome.
The other solutions should work fine.
Jake
November 14th, 2007 at 8:10 pm #
I personally don’t like using e-mail for larger files or for anything besides basic documents and images. I usually SFTP the files to my shell account or something similar, depending on the technical skills of the receiver. If nothing else, I suppose I would use #3.
Syahid Ali
November 25th, 2007 at 3:39 am #
or you can just send a private and temporary link to the file by using senduit.com
and i just want to say that your wp template for this site rocks!
Nirmal
November 27th, 2007 at 2:02 am #
This is what we do to send exes inside our company network through Windows Msger. We just rename it to .doc or .txt.
Ali
January 24th, 2009 at 4:15 pm #
Gmail seems to be making people to use RAR format ! ;)
sanjaykukreti
March 19th, 2009 at 5:17 pm #
on 9/13/07 I wrote a mail in my gmail account with an attachment of zip file having an exe. Now I want to download the zip file but Gmail does not allow me to send or download this of file. How can i download this file?
rick
April 27th, 2009 at 4:36 pm #
gmail has attach a file but not attach a photo why not