To protect your account, Gmail doesn’t allow you to attach certain types of files. Gmail often updates the types of files not allowed to keep up with harmful software that is constantly changing. If you’re sure the file is safe, you can ask the sender to upload the file to Google Drive. Then send it as a Drive attachment.
Often you can’t attach files in Gmail due to a proxy server. In order to fix the error, you need to disable the proxy. Follow the steps below to disable the proxy server: Click on the Start icon and type Control Panel in the search box. Select the Control Panel app from the search result.
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) Documents with malicious macros.
How to fix Gmail not attachments not working on Android?
Make sure it is set to Allow so Gmail can access files on your phone and attach it. Corrupt Files Are you sure that the files you are trying to attach are not corrupt ?
Why can’t I send files from my Gmail account?
Gmail often updates the types of files not allowed to keep up with harmful software that is constantly changing. If you’re sure the file is safe, you can ask the sender to upload the file to Google Drive. Then send it as a Drive attachment. Sometimes messages are blocked when you don’t include any attachments.
You should be thinking “Why can’t I send files from my OneDrive to Gmail?”
By other hand, sometimes that I have the same issue, it is because the file is only available in Onedrive in the cloud, so in Windows File Explorer, find that file inside the Onedrive main folder, then right-click over it and click on “Always keep on this device” in order to download to your computer, then you can attach to a Gmail email.
How do I attach files to an email?
Gmail makes attaching files to your emails pretty easy. All you have to do is drag and drop the file to the email, and it will be uploaded and attached. Adding files from Drive is even easier as both the services are owned by Google and integrate well.
How to send Zip attachments through Gmail?
I found an alternative solution to send zip attachment (or other forbidden files) through Gmails, other than using GDrive : it’s not direct, but someone could find better than using GDrive. -> The alternative way is: Encode the zip file in Base64 and save it in a file, then send it as attachment.