Hey I did a write up of this here:<p><a href="https://medium.com/@dosy/sending-forbidden-files-on-gmail-using-dictionary-encoding-9c886f297398" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@dosy/sending-forbidden-files-on-gmail-us...</a><p>Please excuse the tone I'm using. I'm just working out my style, and so on. Not an excuse. Just asking for kindness while I work out a writing voice.<p>Anyway I can summarize here:<p>- try to send many file types on GMail, get blocked for security reasons<p>- convert the file to a text file using <a href="https://textonly.github.io/txtmode" rel="nofollow">https://textonly.github.io/txtmode</a><p>- attach the text file to the email and send it no problemo<p>- use the same link to convert the text file back to the archive<p>- congratulations you just used GMail to send a file GMail ( in its infinite wisdom ) did not want you to send<p>I'm not making this as a hack and I hope no one uses it to do bad stuff obviously, this is just to get over the poorly implemented "threat scan" GMail currently uses, which blocks plenty of useful and harmless files, and which disingenuously forces the "workaround" of uploading to GDrive.<p>This tool is hosted on GitHub pages. You can view the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/textonly/txtmode" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/textonly/txtmode</a>
I tried it with a 323-Kb picture that was transformed into a 2,8 Mb txt file.
It worked the other side, but I had a warning regarding the filesize and potential memory problems.
Wouldn't it also work with UUENCODE ?