[DUG]Sending email software

[Robert martin]

Hi

My experience is that lost of site will also block anything marked as a 
zip.  Some will also block anything with an 'unknown extension' so your 
.dat might also fail.  We have one client we just cant send anything to, 
neither of us can work out what his IT department (in the UK) will allow 
through.

We often use ftp to transfer files (and have some simple ftp tools) but 
even this is problematic.  The whole thing seems a bit of a mess :)


Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax   +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



John Bird wrote:
> Distributing software....
>
> I am favouring making a self installer using inno-setup (a nice Delphi based
> free installer).  This means sending a .exe file, which lots of email
> systems will block, so I was thinking of sending the .EXE inside a .zip
> file.  Will any email systems block a zip with a .EXE file inside?  (I think
> some antivirus programs do look for this combination).  
>
> Alternatively I could send the .EXE with a .DAT extension and get it renamed
> after the attachment is saved..
>
> What do others do?
>
> John
>
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