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Gmail won't send a .lib file (even if it's in a .zip)

Topic last updated 17 Sep 2019, by Robert Quest. 2 replies
Dean H
07 Feb 2010

I wanted to give everybody a heads-up on the following:

Yesterday, I tried to email a zip of one of my mbed projects, but was denied by Google Mail (gmail) because my message contained an attachment that gmail thought had a binary.  I discovered that gmail does *not* allow attachments with the extension .lib even if the .lib file is contained in a .zip file.  Google enabled this draconian filter in an effort to prevent the spread of spam and virii.

!!Dean

Andrew Harpin
07 Feb 2010

Encrypt the zip file, possibly even try 7zip.

Robert Quest
17 Sep 2019

This issue can be directly associated with gmail, narrowing down the specific issue can fix the problem, in most of the cases this type of issue is related to gmail error 007 , I have fixed the same with the help of https://www.internettablettalk.com/how-to-fix-gmail-error-007-solved/