Why is gmail blocking me from sending email with a "pages" document attached?

define blocking. To my knowledge it blocks nothing.

Grant

MacKeeper is a scam, remove it.

Google have to redo their filters, they got it wrong this time.

agree with csound on both points.

Google reads your emails, in case you did not know that. Unless you are sending an email containing content Google can extract and add to its vast database of personal information, Google has no use for it.

Google Mail is becoming progressively useless. It won't accept .zip attachments, at least not the last time I tried, it will eventually prevent you from using an email client unless you visit their web mail interface, and it will disable your account if you attempt to log in from someplace Google deems is not where Google thinks you ought to be.

Gmail is worth every cent you paid.

Get rid of MacKeeper. It is capable of doing nothing beneficial and will only cause problems.

I just successfulyl sent a zipped appacthment from gmail to my other mail.

So that's simply not true.

Grant

Bully for you. It won't accept mine.

well, software isn't arbitrary. there is a difference either in your configuration settings, or the zips that you have attached, or something. Many people I know use gmail quite heavily and there is never a problem with attachments.

yes, they scan your mail. yes, they have security bots that get annoying ( i travel globally for work). But there's more to the story than "gmail does not allow zips". I have demonstated that the statement, as put, is not true.

There may be something to learn if you can figure out what you and the OP are both doing.

Grant

If the zip file contains a new format Pages, Numbers or Keynote file it won't send (IME) and if those files are unzipped they still won't send because big G identifies them as a virus. Of course they will send (zipped or not) using every other email system in existence (or at least the ones I have tried)

This is clearly a Google problem.

You're right, it's not arbitrary, but the false identification of iWorks files (new ones) as a virus is arbitrary.

And I have strong objections to becoming just another product for Google to sell (by offering me a free email system and then mining my communications on it for income)

If anyone wants a good email system, paying for one is the best way, any free system uses you as product.

Bully for you and the people you know. The .zip file I attempted to send was a small iMovie. It wouldn't take it.

"and I have strong objections to becoming just another product for Google to sell (by offering me a free email system and then mining my communications on it for income)."

Me too. How about iCloud mail?

George

iCloud does not sell your communications to get income, you paid for it when you bought a Mac, or an iThing

But if you want a solid email system then use Microsoft Exchange, but you won't get that for free.

I suggest you use Mac Mail I'll bet it will work.

Donald Morgan wrote:

I suggest you use Mac Mail I'll bet it will work.

Not if Mac Mail is the client for a Gmail account.