OVERVIEW: Blocked Email Attachment Extensions


For 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
.adp
.app
.asd
.asf
.asx
.bas
.bat
.chm
.cmd
.com
.cpl
.crt
.dll
.exe
.fxp
.hlp
.hta
.hto
.inf
.ini
.ins
.isp
.jse
.lib
.lnk
.mdb
.mde
.msc
.msi
.msp
.mst
.ocx
.pcd
.pif
.prg
.reg
.scr
.sct
.sh
.shb
.shs
.sys
.url
.vb
.vbe
.vbs
.vcs
.vxd
.wmd
.wmf
.wms
.wmz
.wsc
.wsf
.wsd


Article ID: 470
Created: October 18, 2016
Last Updated: October 18, 2016
Author: Christopher Nixon

Online URL: https://hdkb.clemson.edu/phpkb/article.php?id=470