ZIP Files: Allow to be sent to your Mailing List.
To protect our users, Mail-List.com rejects email with various types of attachments (described below).
If your Subscribers need to share certain types of compressed files, please use the instructions below to allow them. (For example, the common ZIP file.)
How to Allow Certain Compressed Files
Log into your mail-list account at https://database.mail-list.com.
- Click Customize Your List.
- Click Miscellaneous Settings.
- Click Remove any Files......
Our system is automatically removing a certain list of file types. By adding specific types in this window, those files will now be allowed for your Mailing List.
- Add the file type to be allowed. (For example: ZIP)
- Click Save.
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Types of Attachments Removed
Compressed files and folders can be sent in various forms. Compressed files are sent as one file attached, which expands into many files. This type of file can be difficult to scan for viruses.
If a Subscriber sends an email with one of these file types attached, the email message will be sent to the Mailing List without the attachment.
| File Type | Description |
|---|---|
| .7Z |
Compressed archive - open source (IE Igor Pavlov's 7-Zip) |
| .ace |
File archive compressed by WinAce |
| .arj |
Compressed by ARJ - program uses Robert Jung compression |
| .bz |
Compressed with Bzip - Unix systems, standard bzip utility |
| .bz2 |
Compressed bzip2 - Unix systems |
| .cab |
Windows Cabinet file - used for Windows software installations |
| .gz |
Compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) algorithm - Unix systems |
| .gzip |
Compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) algorithm - Unix systems |
| .iso |
CD or DVD disc image format, often used to copy CD/DVD |
| .jar |
Java Archive File |
| .lzh |
Compressed using Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu (LZH) |
| .tar |
Consolidated Unix File Archive |
| .uue |
Uuencoded File - Unix program that converts binary to text |
| .xz |
XZ Compressed Archive |
| .z |
Unix Compressed File |
| .zip |
Compressed file with one or more files compressed with Zip compression |
Types of Rejected Emails
Mail-List.com will always reject email messages with the following types of attachments.
If a Subscriber sends an email with one of these file types attached, the message is rejected. Notice of the rejection is sent to the sender.
| File Type | Description |
|---|---|
| .bat | DOS batch file used to execute commands |
| .btm | database files generated using BizTalk Server software |
| .cmd | script file that contains one or more commands |
| .com | executable program |
| .cpl | Windows control panel item |
| .dll | compiled library of procedures and/or drivers |
| .exe | executable program |
| .lnk | Windows shortcut (link) to a original file, folder, or application |
| .msi | Windows installer package |
| .pif | program information file |
| .prf | Outlook user profile |
| .reg | Windows Registry file |
| .scr | Windows screen saver |
| .vbs | VB script file |
| .url | Internet shortcut file |