{"id":59524,"date":"2017-03-01T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=59524"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:18:40","slug":"gsuite-gmail-attachments-cannot-contain-js-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/gsuite-gmail-attachments-cannot-contain-js-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Gsuite \/ Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent security updates to Google&#8217;s mail services mean that <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/gmail\/\">Gmail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/g-suite\/\">Google Workspace<\/a> accounts are no longer allowed to attach files with the .js extension (this includes zip files which contain .js files).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/google-workspace\/\">Get Google\u2019s Google Workspace for your Business Here \u2013 fully managed or 20% off.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to the following file extensions which were already banned:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>File types you can&#8217;t include as attachments<\/h3>\n<p><code>.ADE, .ADP, .BAT, .CHM, .CMD, .COM, .CPL, .EXE, .HTA, .INS, .ISP, .JAR, .JS <\/code><span class=\"red-text\"><strong>(NEW)<\/strong><\/span><code>, .JSE, .LIB, .LNK, .MDE, .MSC, .MSI, .MSP, .MST,\u00a0.NSH .PIF, .SCR, .SCT, .SHB, .SYS, .VB, .VBE, .VBS, .VXD, .WSC, .WSF, .WSH<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This obviously can raise issues, for example if you&#8217;re emailing a plugin or theme to a client or similar!<\/p>\n<h3>The Workaround &#8211; Upload to Drive &amp; Send Link<\/h3>\n<p>There is a good workaround if you are on a <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/google-workspace\/\">Google Workspace<\/a> account: upload the file to <a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tag\/google-drive\/\">Google Drive<\/a> and add the link into your email. This will virus scan the file, and send the secure link to your contact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/google-workspace\/\">Get Google\u2019s Google Workspace for your Business Here \u2013 fully managed or 20% off.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent security updates to Google&#8217;s mail services mean that Gmail and Google Workspace accounts are no longer allowed to attach files with the .js extension (this includes zip files which contain .js files). Get Google\u2019s Google Workspace for your Business Here \u2013 fully managed or 20% off. This is in addition to the following file &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Gsuite \/ Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any more\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/google-workspace\/gsuite-gmail-attachments-cannot-contain-js-files\/#more-59524\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gsuite \/ Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2182],"tags":[661,4747,668,2184,1459],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}