Some GMail tips

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Published Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:40 AM by RoyOsherove
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Friday, June 18, 2004 11:00 PM by Denrael

# re: Some GMail tips

They must have figured it out. I just got my first gmail account a week ago, and no invites at all.
Saturday, June 19, 2004 5:23 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: Some GMail tips

Danrael: weird. Maybe you only get them if you actually use your GMail acount X times.... oh well.
Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:07 PM by TrackBack

# re: GMail Invitations, Part 3

Monday, June 21, 2004 10:10 PM by Nish

# re: Some GMail tips

Wow, such an obvious trick and yet I never thought of that :-) I was actually wondering how some people claimed to have 20-30 invites :-)
Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:04 AM by TrackBack

# Infinite Gmail invites :)

Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:07 AM by Wei

# re: Some GMail tips

No luck here too. I heard somewhere that receiving and sending 20 emails will get u one 1 invite. So i'm currently spamming myself. :p
Sunday, July 04, 2004 7:29 AM by crinlog

# re: Some GMail tips

wassat?
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 3:42 PM by Zalmaki

# re: Some GMail tips

www.gmailswap.com

If you're looking for Gmail invites, check it out.
Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:11 PM by Sean Malloy

# re: Some GMail tips

Wow. Roy, you certainly think outside the square. You must have some serious spare time with all those accounts you gotta check all the time. How is that tip working out for you now?

Heres a tip: You CAN send in zip files.

If a zip file contains executable code (.dll, .exe etc) gmail will spit it with an invalid attachment. So as long as you don't include anything like that, you can use zip files... If I want to email zip files with executable code in them, I just rename them to .bin files, and attach them, and in the email instruct the user to rename the attachment to .zip...

Anyways...
Monday, November 27, 2006 3:38 AM by Noodles

# re: Some GMail tips

I'm trying to send a zip file with a folder of JPGs, PNGs and HTML files and gmail is saying it has an executable in it. Very annoying. Maybe there's something hidden I'm un-aware of? Or gmail mis-recognises some of these files as executables, either way I don't want to use one of the work-arounds 'cause I don't wanna confuse the guy on the other end. Suggestions?