Can't email apps!

I often e-mail myself stuff, via my gmail account. I send off the email at work, and then download it at home.

Today I tried to e-mail myself the original Space Quest demo. And gmail wouldn't let me! It said that "for security reasons" I'm not allowed to send executables. Which seems rather high-handed. And the interesting part is that it was in a zip file ... and I had renamed the .exe to something else. So gmail actually scans inside archives, and scans the actual files, not just the filenames!

Maybe it's standard - I tried to send it from a different webmail account, and the same thing happened (although I didn't try the renaming trick). But dammit! If I want to email myself something, I don't see why I can't! Especially when it's not something that could possibly be executed accidentally or automatically.

Grrr. And it would be the one day I left my flashdrive at home.