Google blocking 7zip

[Ian Batten]

On 28 Mar 2014, at 09:07, Richard Hopkins <richard.hopkins at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> Some time this week, Google started blocking 7zip encrypted archives (.7z). You can no longer send or receive emails which contain 7zip encrypted attachments nor share them using Google Drive.
> 
> I haven't seen any announcement about this...nor any discussion, but it's causing us (as a Google Apps for Education "customer") pain.

Earth to Amphitheatre Parkway: email content policies suitable for protecting naive end users might not be ideal for computer science departments.  And vice versa.

ian