Rant alert: My fight with Gmail

So I want to send a 150mb SPSS file to my professor. Well, I thought, this is why I have gmail and this is why I convinced her to use that account, right?

Wrong.

Grrr. Gmail does not allow to send or receive attachments larger then 10mb.

Grumble. What do I need the famous x-giga size account if not for attachments? Heck, my 7 years total email in my mozilla is less then 1 gig (granted, I do delete large attachments). Oh well, maybe they got abused by some movie sending pirates or something (though it kind of means that they lost, as the most appealing function of gmail - handling of large files - is crippled). Oh, remember their excuse for invitation only? 'We are safe from spammers'? Bah.

OK. So I splitt the file with WinZip into 8mb (maximum compression with new WinZip 10 did it in 5 files - less then 40mbs total. Score one for the zip tech).

And guess what. 'This attachment contains an executable file. Gmail will not send such attachments due to security reasons'.

Aaaaaargh. Now this is just plain stupid. What, I ask, executable file? Zip self-extractor? If I wanted to be nasty, I could wonder if scanning my files is not a privacy violation. And if they can scan files (including zips) cannot they tell a SPSS file from movie, mp3 or a virus?

Just in case you wonder, when I send this from my another account, I got a bounce:
Remote host said: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment d7si869528wra

1 hour wasted.

If I want a restriction-full smarter-then-me software, I will go get a hotmail or yahoo crappaccount. Google just lost BIG in my eyes.

Good for me that several years ago for about 50$ I bought a 'for life' email account at home.pl - I never had problems with large attachments (although sometimes with the fools sending them...).

So, Gmail sucks. End of rant.

Update: no piece of crappy junk will beat me (easily). Since all files except the first zip (i.e. z01 to z04) passed through, I renamed zip to z00, and apparently it passed the Google filter (at least I did not got a reject yet).

And if it wont work I can always upload it to my ftp and give my prof a simple download link. Sometimes classic solutions are the best.