Answers: email - Sending *.exe by changing extension failed

Anubis

I know you can send .exe through email by changing their extension. I've been using this often. But strange thing happen when I tried to send this specific ".exe" file. It failed!!

It's this compressor, uharc.exe. Full app can be downloaded from here. I just need the uharc.exe that you can find in the bin folder.

Actually, failure didn't occure at gmail (I'm using it). But the recipient has rejected it (the recipient is in some private network). But how can the recipient identify that particular file only! Well, i haven't tried sending exe's before, but I've sent jar files which were rejected if I send without changing the extension..

Can anyone explain how's this happening. Is there any solution for this...(please note that the recipient's machine has strictly limited access. Can't download, install, even web surfing is much limited.. and that's why I'm doing this..)

This is what gmail said about the failure..

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     ***@***.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 Error: content rejected (state 17).

----- Original message -----

DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
        h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type;
        bh=QEk6/JzSwEYG+xPfJ5u4hmg00M3ANp+9zuGfwUNsWJ4=;
        b=DXcn1PO//71206sw0/3WLsuOPDYQ1lRimDhs57WARqa2mzsli76O9AExXwvuPBP6HH
         K47myiF169lwluDToZvaNYdLilNHvny6JD/JcIWthnILtnTDMjjzQf4WXXO9QFh06o/G
         bcUHHDPXkkN+4777s7VuM1awRpt4rzrE1d2vRialE++fEn5LSAboNh8g7yZ9zvlykyID
         V6pLMfVXHWaQdTdhgFDi/bUlVoJkqscGA1YVtHgyRY+vEJPzTgf60LHYV/zAtaVAeWQa
         O4UOM5u4lD8c1woDJywU1n6JpO99TI1sjcalcfORbF/mniDfcz+16HvxFwUG1AecEOxI
         6bwg==
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.49.104.65 with SMTP id gc1mr1327542qeb.22.1351846482769; Fri,
 02 Nov 2012 01:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.49.107.231 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 01:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:24:42 +0530
Message-ID: <[email protected]m>
Subject: JPEG
From: Sumudu Lansakara <*myemail*@gmail.com>
To: *** *** <***@***.com>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=047d7b5dbd946575d304cd7f495f

EDIT

I found that i can't sent any *.exe by this method. Recipient always reject them. Hope there'll be some solution!! (without using any third party app..)

Karthik T

A simple solution would be to zip the exe file and encrypt it by locking it with a password. This should keep most spam/virus prevention systems from making out that it contains a .exe file

NReilingh

Rejecting messages with a binary executable attachment, whether it has an .exe extension or not, is a spam/virus prevention measure.

ZIP (or use some other compression algorithm) the .exe before you send it. Except for extremely common document file types, you should do this when sending email attachments anyway.

Mikhail

Did you hit the file size limit supported by their email account? Are you sure its the right email? Are you spamming the guys email box with viri and they blocked you?

This a generic rejection notice and I suspect it has nothing to do with the changing of the extension method failing.

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Suresh

Is there any shortcut or way to create a shortcut to attach selected file as mail attachment in Outlook. Now, I've to right click the selected file and use "Send To-->Mail Recipient" option. A shortcut will help a lot.

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Shoban

Ctrl + N in outlook will open new email. You can copy past the attachment to the new email.

Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V ;-)

Diago

There is no default Windows shortcut, however you would be able to create your own using AutoHotKey

RBerteig

For those who like to work at the command line, check out blat. Once configured, it can be used to form and send a complete email from a single command. Note that blat is a complete mail user agent itself: it does not use Outlook or any other mailer on the PC.

For example, the following command:

C:\...>blat -to [email protected] -subject "Totality" -attach total.jpg -body "Here's that shot of the total eclipse"
Blat v2.6.2 w/GSS encryption (build : Feb 25 2007 12:06:19)

Sending stdin.txt to [email protected]
Subject: Totality
Login name is [email protected]
Attached binary file: total.jpg

C:\...>

Sends a photo along with a short text caption to a single recipient, printing some reassuring progress notes along the way.

It is actually quite the powerful tool, and can be handy if you need to have a long-running (or scheduled at odd times) batch job that you'd like to report results from.

Olli

I have Outlook 2010. The answer here is simply: AltN, then AF. This will bring up your word files for attachment.

Simon Sheehan

Just use the default ALT (underlined) shorcuts, so for Sent to Mail Recipient:

ALT + F N M

Indrek

Try the following sequence: F10, F, D, A

Excellll

Alt+F+D+E+A attaches the current powerpoint to Outlook.

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