OVERVIEW: Blocked Email Attachment Extensions
Estimated Reading Time: 1 MinutesFor security reasons, Clemson University currently blocks e-mail attachments with certain extensions. Below are a list of the 56 extensions blocked by Clemson’s mail server.
Clemson mail server now accepts .zip files, as of March 2007.
Extensions in bold text are the most common for email attachments.
.ade
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.adp
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.app
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.asd
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.asf
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.asx
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.bas
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.bat
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.chm
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.cmd
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.com
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.cpl
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.crt
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.dll
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.exe
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.fxp
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.hlp
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.hta
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.hto
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.inf
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.ini
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.ins
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.isp
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.jse
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.lib
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.lnk
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.mdb
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.mde
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.msc
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.msi
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.msp
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.mst
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.ocx
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.pcd
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.pif
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.prg
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.reg
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.scr
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.sct
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.sh
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.shb
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.shs
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.sys
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.url
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.vb
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.vbe
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.vbs
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.vcs
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.vxd
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.wmd
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.wmf
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.wms
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.wmz
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.wsc
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.wsf
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.wsd
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