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After reading Fred’s post on this I decided to test it out by encrypting a document and emailing it to my wife.

At first, we thought she didn’t receive it since it wasn’t in the Gmail inbox or spam folder. I then found it in her trash folder. There are no filters set up on her Gmail account. How do you avoid that?

This is on a Windows 10 PC.

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Can you post a link to Fred’s post?

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WSjcgc50 wrote:

How do you avoid that?

Mark in Gmail as ‘Not Spam’

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GoneToPlaid wrote:

Can you post a link to Fred’s post?

I’m further behind than I thought, it is in the 5/31 newsletter. https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/free-edition-securing-sensitive-files-in-onedrives-cloud/

It relates to securing files to copy to Onedrive and not emailing.

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Google may be sending the email to trash since Google’s anti-malware programs can’t decrypt the 7zip file attachment in order to determine whether or not the file attachment is malicious. This is my best guess.

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Alex5723 wrote:

WSjcgc50 wrote:

How do you avoid that?

Mark in Gmail as ‘Not Spam’

As I said, it was in the Trash folder, not spam. I don’t see a way to stop it from going to trash.

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Google’s AI email scanners can’t read the content, so I’m hazzarding a guess that it is an email security measure hence sent to trash. Are you able to open/decrypt the email or is it scrambled from within the trash?

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There was a note that they could not scan the attachment and I was able to download and decrypt and open the file. Guess I’ll just have to keep that in mind when sending to someone and be sure they know to check in trash or spam if they don’t see it.

Is there some other method to encrypt and send documents via mail that might avoid the issue?

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Different email provider would be a step in the right direction 😉
I don’t use google anything where possible..

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doriel, Fred

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After 15 years of using google mail, I think have not seen a minute, when my services were not available. Google may know a lot about me and provides alot of personalized ads, but the availability and functionality is just awesome. There is no competition to its services. And it costs literally zero money.

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Its normal behavior, that files that cannot be analyzed (archives with password) can be automatically considered as dangerous/spam, usually firewall blocks it. But Im not sure about the Trash folder..
I tested it myself, but the message with passworded archive has arrived normally to my gmail Inbox folder.
There are other ways to share files like this. Iknow two services in Czechrepublic that can be use to share files, but I suppose they wont work in other countries. You can use dropbox or similar, or even google disk if you use google services on daily basis.

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