So anyone who uses Google Drive has a new way to access the files there. Under iOS for iPhone and iPad, currently the Gmail app still blocks you from downloading attachments not in the safe list, but doesn't prevent the user from saving them to their Google Drive account. The Gmail app for Android is a little slicker and will both block suspect files and prevent them from being saved in Google Drive. Presumably the assumption made is that anyone using their own email client (a bit quaint for personal users these days with so many webmail clients available) is tech savvy enough to virus scan incoming email. These would let you properly configure the POP email and SMTP email settings in order to be able to connect to the Gmail servers and download the old email. A package like Outlook or Thunderbird would do just fine. One way around this is to use an email client. Even in the Basic HTML old Gmail interface downloading of attachments is only acceptable on ones that are part of their safe list.
The Gmail web interface blocks both the download option and the Save to Drive option too. How to access the file attachments despite the blocking Whether they're found inside a file archive container or attached separately, you won't be able to download them. These include EXE, SYS, CMD, CHM, WSH, VBS, VXD, MST, PIF, LNK and many others. There are many file types that are blocked by default by Gmail. Downloading this attachment is disabled." "Anti-virus warning - 1 attachment contains a virus or blocked file. The warning that Gmail gives out is usually: This type of preventing of access to email attachments within the popular email service extends to RAR archives (and other file archives) if they happen to contain files they deem as unsafe (so Gmail clearly scans the contains of file archive containers). You see, Gmail actually blocks files based on their file extension regardless of whether the file actually contains a virus or not. Gmail is a great email service but it does have a tendency to block access to a long list of attachments that it deems a security risk even if they do not contain any viruses at all.
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