Gmail does not allow users to send and receive executable files (files with the extension “.exe”, “.dll”, “.ocx” or “.bat”) in its policy. If you try to send these files, Gmail will send you an error message: “This is an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send these type of files.” One might try to zip or compress the files into other formats such as “.zip”, “.tar”, “.tgz”, “.taz”, “.z” or “.gz”. However, your Gmail account will bounce back your message. How to send executable files with your Gmail account if you really need to do so? However, there are a few ways that you can try it out: -
- Rename your executable files from the “exe” extension to other formats such as “doc”, “jpeg”, etc. For example, say your file name is techno-globe.exe; just rename your file to techno-globe.doc and send it over to your friends you want to send to. Once the receivers have received the files, they just need to change the extension back to the original file extension i.e.,techno-globe.exe
- The other way you can try it out is upload your executable files to some free file hosting service such as Rapidshare. Copy down the link and send it to the receivers. It’s pretty straightforward.
- Send it from yousendit.com.
- Upload the files to pages.google.com.No need to sign-up again,you may use same gmail username/password.Upload the exe file and send the link to the receiver.
- Compress your executable file by using Winrar utility. Gmails doesn’t scan files in the *.rar format. You can send the file out without a problem. However, you should make sure that receivers can open the *.rar files.For both of them one need to install Winrar which is easily available on internet.
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