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

[Jussi Lahtinen]

It's not a "protection thing", it's a bug in the "protection thing". I'm in
multiple emailing lists and this is the only one where the attachment
problem exists. And it seems to be a problem only with some accounts.
Example I don't think any of my attachments have been blocked.


Jussi

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:23 PM Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 17:38, Tobias Boege <tobs at taboege.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> There has to be more to this than meets the eye.  (our protection) lol ,
> we always here that when people want to instigate their own rules.
> For example a .vb file ??  that's not even an application it's source code
> you'd need to compile. protection my butt. more like finding any excuse to
> lower their server demands.
> Many of those file types are harmless. it's a conspiracy i tell ya, a
> conspiracy.
> ;)
>
>
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