.gif animated files

Hello to eveybody ! I'm a new subscriber and I have a problem : In my old owned PC I received and sent animated graphics .gif files using HTML formatted e mail messages with no problems. Now in my newbrand MacBook Pro the graphic looks animated by the sender but it looks static to me as recipient when I open the message or save/views it in My documents.
After various attempts, I found out that if I open the .gif file with Safari.app, I can see it animated but from Safari.app I cannot either save or send it attached to an email message.
Can someone help me ? Thanks a lot.

Animated GIF files only show the animation when viewed using an HTML or similar viewing environment.
Apple mail, AFAIK, only has composing options of text and rich-text and not HTML, so the animation will not show. However, the Gif will still contain the animation frames and should display properly when opened with Safari or other HTML viewer.
I just sent myself an animated gif, and when I received the email, I right-clicked the gif and selected "open with" and chose Safari and the animation was correct.
It's simply that the Apple email does not have HTML as one of its composing/viewing options.

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