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scottb

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Gmail and attachments
« on: April 30, 2005, 03:31:20 PM »
I have the free version of Avast! running - very well, I must say. I have a problem with GMail in that I cannot download any kind of attachments and when I say any, I mean any eg .doc;s pdf's. I also have the Windows Spyware Beta and rthe Windows Firewall and that is it. I also have XP with SP2.

Is there any possibility that my problem might be avast! related and if so what can I do?

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Re: Gmail and attachments
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2005, 03:56:05 PM »
GMail is very selective about the attachments that it lets through. You can only really send pictures and documents as attachments. I (therefore) highly doubt that it is avast related. Try and zip your attachments before you send them.
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Re: Gmail and attachments
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2005, 06:18:39 PM »
Hi xistenz

If you read my posting. you'll see that I cannot get Word docs or Adobe pdfs. Thanks anyway.

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Re: Gmail and attachments
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2005, 06:22:56 PM »
ZIP doesn't solve anything. You can review ZIP files even if they are encrypted.
Use RAR or ACE instead and see if you can send/recieve it (doc or pdf file).
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Re: Gmail and attachments
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2005, 07:09:40 PM »
I just tried, and no problems with sending/receiving gmail attachments at all. Everything works perfect. I did try with .doc and .pdf files, and doesn't matter what file size is the file I'm trying to send, every time works without a problem.

As you may have already noticed, avast! even doesn't check your gmail account by default. Gmail uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer protocol) and avast! doesn't support it. So, I don't see how avast can stop your attachments from being delivered (sent/received).

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Re: Gmail and attachments
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2005, 07:49:01 PM »
Quote from: /szc\ on April 30, 2005, 07:09:40 PM
I just tried, and no problems with sending/receiving gmail attachments at all. Everything works perfect. I did try with .doc and .pdf files, and doesn't matter what file size is the file I'm trying to send, every time works without a problem.
No troulbes here too.

Quote from: /szc\ on April 30, 2005, 07:09:40 PM
As you may have already noticed, avast! even doesn't check your gmail account by default. Gmail uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer protocol) and avast! doesn't support it. So, I don't see how avast can stop your attachments from being delivered (sent/received).
avast! is checking my email (using Stunnel and OpenSSL) and receive/deliver attached files without problems.
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