[Gambas-user] Click and mousemove not firing...

[Tobias Boege]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2021, Bruce wrote:
> On 5/2/21 2:07 am, Tobias Boege wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Feb 2021, Bruce Steers wrote:
> > > One thought i have is maybe virus checking can only happen at a single
> > > depth level with archives, so a standard zip that is just contents in a
> > > single archive can be checked (i know most virus checkers can also check a
> > > zips contents) but a tar.gz will be an archive within an archive possibly
> > > making it not checkable?
> > > Just a random thought?
> > > 
> > 
> > If that's true, then this is a regression. I have happily sent and received
> > .tar.gz archives on this list for a decade, with only *occasional* outages
> > that were attributed to spam/virus alarms being set off at Google.
> > 
> > But as Christof used to say: we don't know and we will never know. If you
> > identify someone at Google who can be held responsible for these blatant
> > obstructions to completely harmless email traffic, please tell us so that
> > everyone could complain if they wanted to.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Tobias
> > 
> 
> Oh no, it's not virus scanning nor is it ubknown. It's all here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en#zippy=%2Cmessages-that-have-attachments
> The salieny bit is
> 	To protect you against potential viruses and harmful software, Gmail
> doesn't allow you to attach certain types of files, including:
> 
>     Certain types of files, including their compressed form (like .gz or
> .bz2 files) or when found within archives (like .zip or .tgz files)
> 
> IOW Google is opening your mail.
> 

Thanks for the pointer. The way I read this, though, is that archives are
fine by default (which matches my experience) but its contents are checked
for forbidden file types. Now, which of the listed ones trigger on Gambas
source archives and why? Does it think it's a jar file because it contains
.class files? .vb because of syntax similarities? Those are not things that
Gambas could adapt to and we are being punished for no reason.

Even disregarding the "opening your mail" part and that the whole idea
seems to be to protect people from their own email clients doing stupid
things, the file type detection/blocking is more strict than advertised.

Best,
Tobias

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