gmail and dwg don't mix?

[Anonymous]

has anyone else run into problems sending or receiving dwgs to Gmail
accounts? Seems to be every time now, I have to forward the email to
another account and it opens fine, otherwise I get invalid file or file
needs recovery messages.

[Anonymous]

Never, never send dwg's without zipping them, for that exact reason. Our
policy is that all dwgs are zipped, one it reduces the file size, second it
"protects" the file.

ACote
"sicko" wrote in message
news:5746260@discussion.autodesk.com...
has anyone else run into problems sending or receiving dwgs to Gmail
accounts? Seems to be every time now, I have to forward the email to
another account and it opens fine, otherwise I get invalid file or file
needs recovery messages.

[dgorsman]

Third, it discourages people from opening the attached drawing directly from the email without saving it on the computer first.

[joeself]

amen brother.

[Anonymous]

Good point but you can still open the zip directly and open the dwg within
the zip.

ACote
wrote in message news:5746796@discussion.autodesk.com...
Third, it discourages people from opening the attached drawing directly from
the email without saving it on the computer first.

[Anonymous]

We strip all Zipped Attachment to email.
Very efficient way to deliver a virus.

[Anonymous]

Then people will just change the file extension to something else. I
routinely send zipped files to another firm here that does that, just
say in the e-mail to change the file extension back to zip.

Lance W.

jpostlewait wrote:
> We strip all Zipped Attachment to email.
> Very efficient way to deliver a virus.

[Anonymous]

dumbest protection method available for the last 3-years (did they
teach that at a Microsoft seminar?), we just rename extensions, user
names them back, you folks need to wake up and sniff reality, you're
protecting nothing but your naiveté 🙂

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Add-on products for LT
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[Anonymous]

If you have a great email spam filter/virus and a great virus program
scanning all machines on top of that.......little or no viruses will get
past it! You might as well block all attachemnts and web access becasue a
virus can come in more forms then just zip files. Heck some spyware is worse
then some viruses.

wrote in message news:5747466@discussion.autodesk.com...
We strip all Zipped Attachment to email.
Very efficient way to deliver a virus.

[Anonymous]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:51:51 +0000, Dean Saadallah
the company> wrote:

>dumbest protection method available for the last 3-years (did they
>teach that at a Microsoft seminar?), we just rename extensions, user
>names them back, you folks need to wake up and sniff reality, you're
>protecting nothing but your naiveté 🙂

It is a bit like my web host who insists on refusing to deliver
messages with .eml attachments because "they are an extension
associated with harmful payloads"! Now these are created when you
forward an e-mail to someone as an attachment so they can view headers
etc.

--

Regards,

Ian A. White, CPEng.

| /| / WAI Engineering
| /_| / Sydney 2000
|/ |/ Australia

www.wai.com.au

mailto:ianwhite@wai.com.au

callto://waiwhite on Skype

[dgorsman]

To be fair to the other comments - once somebody has been "burned" by something like this, a blanket protection process is a logical step forward.

[Anonymous]

Exactly.
We also have to protect the network in the hours between the release of a virus and the time the protection companies can push the fix.
Changing the file extension for transmitting files is a small inconvenience compared to the alternative.

[Anonymous]

Here's an even sillier one.

When I send clients PDF's of drawings I zip them up and place a
password on the file. It is just incase the file goes astray, and this
was something my clients suggested.

Now one client who specifically asked for this to be done uses a
Symantec corporate scanning system for their computer network. In 2004
I had to send them two password protected ZIP files, but their AV
scanner does not like password protected ZIP files, so when their
network is scanned it comes across the ZIP file in their e-mail
database and has a heart attack. It sends out an e-mail to the sender
of the file advising them that it could not scan the file and so the
sender should check that the file is not infected.

Now this project (they do industrial/commercial floor tiling projects)
has been completed and the warranty period is well and truly finished.
But like clockwork, every Monday I get 2 automated e-mails from them
after their system does a scan, finds the two ZIP files in its
database and has a heart attack.

I suggested they simply remove the attachments or messages from their
database because the ZIP files are no longer valid, but they refuse to
do this. My previous ISP and my current one have ended up reporting
them to spam sites because it is the same two messages that come in
every Monday.

--

Regards,

Ian A. White, CPEng.

| /| / WAI Engineering
| /_| / Sydney 2000
|/ |/ Australia

www.wai.com.au

mailto:ianwhite@wai.com.au

callto://waiwhite on Skype

[cadpro78]

Geez, anyone heard of FTP sites? Most of the time, our clients prefer to use our company FTP site to download the files instead of sending through e-mail. They have to put in an ID and password so it is protected from outsiders and it really just makes sense to us here to do it that way. Solves tons of headaches trying to get dwgs to clients who get frusturarted b/c they can't get it through their email - zipped or not.