[pchelpers] Re: How do I email a .dll or .exe file?

Hi Louis,

Saturday, September 25, 2004, 12:35:44 PM, you wrote:

LMH> I have been trying to send one of our posters a .dll and a .exe file as an
LMH> attachement to an email. The .dll is about 799KB and the .exe is
LMH> about 100KB.  The more important one is the .dll file, but that
LMH> "send" bounced back to me with the "reason: 552 Illegal Attachment"
LMH> I was using the "insert" procedure in Outlook Express.  I send files
LMH> of this size all the time, but they are usually image files.

LMH> Is there a way to send these files by email? Could size be a factor,
LMH> even though I receive downloaded programs all the time, but it's a
LMH> first time "send" for me on files of this type.

Many ISPs block certain types of attachments. If you really want to
send it, one way is to rename the file, to something like
FileOne.exe.xxx and FileTwo.dll.xxx, and tell the recipient to rename
the files to drop the extra extension. However, double extensions are
viewed suspiciously by some email filters, so you may want to rename
them some other way. Another option is to create a ZIP file containing
the two. That way you don't need to rename them.

Putting them into a ZIP file has the added benefit of making the email
noticeably smaller, saving bandwidth and time. Saving bandwidth is
good for folks like John Durham and Sunshine, who pay for how much
bandwidth they use. People on dial-up often pay per minute, for the
phone call, the internet connection, or both, and saving bandwidth
will help them also.

--Scott.


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