[Gary L]

VM have compared their policy to googles as a seperate thing.

I must point out that this set of restrictions regarding attachments is
something of a standard practice across many major email service providers,
including MSN and Gmail (see
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...en&answer=6590).

the same VM policy applies to SMTP too.
Googles policy on passworded zips is If the attachment is encrypted and does not contain another zipped attachment, then it can be sent and received.

VM are saying that they can't be passworded at all.