Beware Your Zips!

Its not you, it’s Google.

A lot of people have been mentioning that Gmail won’t send emails if they have zips. Other people have no problem. And reading the list of filetypes that are blocked, it took me a while to figure out what was going on. Not only does Gmail blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. bad attachments, they also check in your zips to see what files are there:

Certain file types (listed below), including their compressed form (like .gz or .bz2 files) or when found within archives (like .zip or .tgz files)

And guess what filetype Gmail just added on as a banned attachment? `.js` files. Explains perfectly why some of you had no problem and others have massive ones, right? Right.

My advice is, and has been for quite a while now, to use GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ or Gitlab or Bitbucket or some sort of true development version control system. They all generate their own zips and you can just link us to them. Plus if it’s really complicated to explain what’s wrong, we can highlight the code for you.

I strongly recommend you NOT use free download sources like mega file and all those other ones, especially if they offer faster downloads for money. The majority come with scam popups, viruses, and x-rated ads. Of which I have seen enough. Dropbox is free and has public links. Plus you all have your own websites and can upload a zip there if needed.

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