Cannot send *.zip attachement to cygwin mailing list

[Larry Hall]

At 05:35 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote:

>I've tried to send mail with *.zip attachement to cygwin mailing list,
>but got this error:
>
>> Subject: failure notice
>>
>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at home.pl.
>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
>> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>> 
>> <cygwin at cygwin dot com>:
>> 12.107.209.250 failed after I sent the message.
>> Remote host said: 552 we don't accept email with executable content (#5.3.4)
>
>Bug or a feature?  


Feature.


>*.tgz attachement with identical contents passed
>through:
>  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00795.html


Right.  Gzipped attachments are accepted.






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