Problem sending pbem thru gmail

[mac5732]

The player I'm playing a pbem game has problems sending the game turns thru gmail. He sends them thru outlook with no problem. I'm able to send him my turn thru gmail with no problems and he receives it ok. when he tries to send it to me it locks up. Anyone have the same problem or any ideas what's the problem... tks in advance

[Ballbarian]

Just a long shot, but you might have him try renaming the file from whatever.2h to whatever.txt or whatever.trn to whatever.txt or zip the file. Perhaps gmail is blocking the sending of the file as being suspicious, but it is strange that he could receive the files. Worth a try.

[DrPraetorious]

I have no trouble sending .trn files through g-mail.

If the system is freezing up, it's probably the size of the file - his connection *to* gmail might be really slow, while his connection to the e-mail provider for his ISP (which is presumably what outlook uses) would be much faster?

.2h files are not that big so this seems unlikely to be the source of the problem, though.

[calmon]

I played a nearly complete pbem game (turn 73 now) via gmail account and never had any problems. Even .trn files with 1,5 mb were a problem (got and send trn and 2h files without any zip)

[K]

It might be his account. I recently found out that yahoo mail was renaming my files and taking the spaces out and turning them into underscores (one of these: _ ).

[Cor]

We are on turn 47 of the Clash game, all done through Gmail with no problems. Infact Gmail has been very helpful to me as a host. I highly suggest it to other hosts.