{"id":161,"date":"2005-12-09T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/12\/09\/sending-files-nuking-email\/"},"modified":"2005-12-09T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T16:37:11","slug":"sending-files-nuking-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/12\/09\/sending-files-nuking-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending files, nuking email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2293'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just confirmed through trial and error that I cannot receive any mail sent to my yheibel AT post DOT harvard DOT edu address if it has files attached.  This presumably also applies to people who have &#8220;signatures&#8221; that include files (a picture, a business card, whatever), although I particularly suspect Word files as being the culprits that trigger the gates to close.  I guess it&#8217;s a way to keep viruses out, but it would be nice if one were informed of this by the gatekeepers&#8230;  For example, if a third party hadn&#8217;t forwarded an email to my Gmail account, I wouldn&#8217;t even know that an important packet of documents from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriaagreement.ca\/en\/index.php\">Victoria Urban Development Agreement<\/a> never reached me.  <\/p>\n<p>I hope no one else sent me anything significant with files attached &#8212; I won&#8217;t have received it. <\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t know is whether the gates are at Gmail or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haa.harvard.edu\/\">Post Harvard<\/a>, which provides the email forwarding service.  I&#8217;m not even sure when exactly this started.  I know that Gmail readily receives email with documents attached, but I don&#8217;t know if it does so when the email comes via a forwarding service.  (I have sent an email to Post Harvard to ask if the mail is getting deleted at their end.)  If it&#8217;s getting deleted by Gmail (and they don&#8217;t tell you that they&#8217;ve nuked your mail, and it doesn&#8217;t appear in the sp*m folder either), it might be time to switch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Edit\/Update<\/b>: I received mail back from Harvard.  The glitch is not happening at their end, so it must be Gmail&#8217;s fault.  Beats me how one is supposed to contact them directly to inquire, though.  All I can find are &#8220;help&#8221; pages, but nowhere to submit a query&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just confirmed through trial and error that I cannot receive any mail sent to my yheibel AT post DOT harvard DOT edu address if it has files attached. This presumably also applies to people who have &#8220;signatures&#8221; that include files (a picture, a business card, whatever), although I particularly suspect Word files as being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}