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Send EMail with zip file/rar file

shai sherman12-Jul-09 0:21

shai sherman

12-Jul-09 0:21

how can i send an email with an Attachments of zip/rar file?

I write this code :

<code>System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();

System.Net.NetworkCredential cred = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username@gmail.com", "password");

mail.To.Add("username@gmail.com");
mail.Subject = "Subject";
mail.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("username@gmail.com");
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
mail.Body = filename;
mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(@"c:\1.zip",MediaTypeNames.Application.Zip));
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");
smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.Credentials = cred;
smtp.Port = 587;
smtp.Timeout = 1000000;
smtp.Send(mail);</code>

The size of the file "1.zip" is 500kb and i get this message:

{"Exceeded storage allocation. The server response was: 5.7.0 Our system detected an illegal attachment on your message. Please"}

Can someone please help to solve this issue?

Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

OriginalGriff12-Jul-09 0:48

OriginalGriff

12-Jul-09 0:48

shai sherman wrote:
The size of the file "1.zip" is 500kb and i get this message:
{"Exceeded storage allocation. The server response was: 5.7.0 Our system detected an illegal attachment on your message. Please"}

As the error message suggests, the error is a response from the other end of the email: the recipient server.
The remote server will not accept the message, the most probable reason being the size of the attachment (from the "Exceeded storage allocation" part.)
Try breaking the .zip file into smaller segments and send them with different messages.
Or try sending the .zip file with a different extension to see if the server lets that through (your user will have to rename it, tho.)

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

shai sherman12-Jul-09 1:21

shai sherman

12-Jul-09 1:21

so there is no way to send just one file of zip/rar to gmail server?

Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

musefan12-Jul-09 1:32

musefan

12-Jul-09 1:32

Yeah, you can get the technicians who manage the gmail servers to allow zip/rar files to be attached to emails. But not likely you will get that to happen so...

and I'm pretty sure gmail does not accept zip/rar files of any size for security reasons

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

EliottA12-Jul-09 3:39

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12-Jul-09 3:39

Untrue it checks the files within the zips and blocks the attachment only if an unsafe file is contained within.

I email myself zip files or projects all the time, but I have to exclude any executables.

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

musefan12-Jul-09 3:41

musefan

12-Jul-09 3:41

Yeah that makes more sense Smile | :)

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

Luc Pattyn12-Jul-09 5:11

Luc Pattyn

12-Jul-09 5:11

Hi,

in my experience it is sufficient to modify the extension, gmail doesn't mind a ZIP that contains an executable called TEST.EXF (nor an unpackaged TEST.EXF).

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

OriginalGriff12-Jul-09 2:59

OriginalGriff

12-Jul-09 2:59

No. I just checked: Gmail attachments[^]
GMail will not accept .ZIP files, unless you rename them.

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

EliottA12-Jul-09 3:55

EliottA

12-Jul-09 3:55

Incorrect,

The source link you quoted wrote:
In Gmail, you can't send executable files (.exe, .cmd) or ZIP archives that contain executables. To bypass this limitation, you need to rename the file and change its extension (don't forget to mention this to the person that receives your mail).

So zip's can be used, but cannot contain executables.

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

OriginalGriff12-Jul-09 4:00

OriginalGriff

12-Jul-09 4:00

I did notice that, but since gmail is complaining and his file is well under the 10MB limit, I felt pretty certain his .ZIP did. You were right though - I should have mentioned it. D'Oh! | :doh:

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

EliottA12-Jul-09 3:38

EliottA

12-Jul-09 3:38

The problem is the extension not the file size. Gmail detects within your zip contains an executable file which is unsafe to send over an email for obvious reasons.

To bypass this rename your zip extension to something customer (myzip.ggg) and have the recipient rename the extension back to .zip.

shai sherman wrote:
mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(@"c:\1.zip",MediaTypeNames.Application.Zip));

Also, don't specify the Application.Zip.

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Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

sandeshmms13-Jul-10 22:17

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13-Jul-10 22:17

I think this link zip file as email attachment may help some one who is looking to create the zip file using c#.

Re: Send EMail with zip file/rar file

Jimut Baran19-Nov-12 2:37

Jimut Baran

19-Nov-12 2:37

Thank you very much Smile | :)

Application Updates

Baeltazor11-Jul-09 23:59

Baeltazor

11-Jul-09 23:59

Hey All,

I was just wondering if it's at all possible to update/add extra functionality to my applications using DLL's? I haven't done this before, and haven't found an answer to this elsewhere. Does anybody know anything about this?

Thanks,
Jase

modified on Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:45 AM

Re: Application Updates

EliottA12-Jul-09 3:40

EliottA

12-Jul-09 3:40

Umm, if it's your DLL you should have the source code to modify at your pleasure..

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Re: Application Updates

Not Active12-Jul-09 4:20

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12-Jul-09 4:20

You may want to research Plugin architecture Plugin Architecture using C#[^]

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Re: Application Updates

Baeltazor12-Jul-09 8:37

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12-Jul-09 8:37

Thank yuo very much for your help mark and eliott, it was really helpful. Smile | :)

[Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not ( .Net Framework 2.0)

senorAli3311-Jul-09 23:29

senorAli33

11-Jul-09 23:29

Hi bros,
Is there any way in C# (C/C++) to detect a timezone observes DST time or not.
For example: with timezone GMT+7, it does not observe DST; timezone GMT-6 observes DST time.
Anyone knows please help me.
Many thanks,
SA.

Re: [Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not

OriginalGriff12-Jul-09 0:12

OriginalGriff

12-Jul-09 0:12

Try MSDN for TimeZoneInfo.IsDaylightSavingTime

If the time zone represented by the TimeZoneInfo object does not support daylight saving time, the method always returns false.

You may have to jigger with it to check a date / time combo that would be in DST if the time zone did support it.

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Re: [Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not

senorAli3312-Jul-09 0:29

senorAli33

12-Jul-09 0:29

Thanks for your answer.
I've had a look at TimeZoneInfo but is only for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5 or higher. My current application is in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/.NET Framework 2.0. It's my pain Frown | :(

. I'm sorry not include the version of .Net framework in my question
Is there any other way?.

Re: [Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not

dan!sh 12-Jul-09 0:54

dan!sh

12-Jul-09 0:54

TimeZone class has the same method for .Net 2.0

Re: [Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not

senorAli3312-Jul-09 2:43

senorAli33

12-Jul-09 2:43

To d@nish: Please have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.aspx[^]
.Net 2.0 does not have timezoneinfo class.

Re: [Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not

dan!sh 12-Jul-09 2:50

dan!sh

12-Jul-09 2:50

I was speaking of this[^] class and method. It is there in .Net 2.0.

Re: [Urgent] How to detect a timezone observes DST time or not

senorAli3312-Jul-09 3:08

senorAli33

12-Jul-09 3:08

Thanks for your answer, but the method IsDaylightSavingTime is only used to indicate whether the specified date and time is within a daylight saving time period or not. It does not tell me the current timezone observes DST or not.
I want to find a way to indicate if a timezone observes DST or not. If it does then I will use the method indicating whether the specified date and time is within a daylight saving time period IsDaylightSavingTime to check for the date/time and adjust date time depend on the current time is DST or none-DST.
Hope to have your help.

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