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As you would know, due to security reasons Gmail prevents users from sending and receiving executable files (files with the extension “.exe”, “.dll”, “.ocx” or “.bat”). If you try to uploading these files, Gmail will send you an error message: “This is an executable file”. However you may try compressing the files into other formats such as “.zip”, “.tar”, “.tgz”, “.taz”, “.z” or “.gz”. But Gmail is smart enough to know there is an executable inside that compress file.

Now the question is how to send executable files with your Gmail account if you really need to do so? Here’s how its done.

First option is to rename your executable files from the “exe” extension to other formats such as “doc”, “jpeg”, etc. For instance, your file name is “something.exe”; just rename it to like”something.doc or something.jpeg”. Once your contact receives the file, he just need to change the extension back to the original file extension.

Another option is to compress your executable file by using Winrar. For some reason Gmail doesn’t scan files in RAR format. Maybe some special truce with winrar….but who knows.!..?

Pranjal