Mail & animated GIF's

Is there any ideas why animated GIF'S dont animate either in Mac Os 10.3.9 or 10.4.5?

Yorgos, can you give us a specific example?

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Animated gif in mail are not visible after upgrade to mavericks

Hi,
I use a animated gif in my signature in mail. This gif was playing normally (like a animated gif) in mountain lion when I writes a new message. After upgrading to mavericks I can't see the animated gif playing. I just see the first frame. However when I send a mail to my iPad using iOS 7 the animated gif is playing normally.
Thanx for every answer!

I'm having this issue as well — I can no longer send animated gifs in Mail with Mavericks (10.9.0). The image retains its full image size and remains a gif format, but does not play, just sits static. This also affects forwarding animated gifs — which play fine in the mail window — they are static in the compose window and are sent static.

Animated .gif files in mail. Problem persists. (PANTHER)

3-17-07
Happy St. Valentine's Day to all you Irish folks!
I'm posting this even though there are threads in the forum that I have
used and contributed to in the past on this topic.
The problem PERSISTS!
The problem/situation is that in mail from family/trusted friends, after I
open the mail, there is no "Load Images" warning at the top but an
animated .gif file is in the message! (don't get me wrong, i do sincerely
love dancing bears. i just want some warning.)
Any suggerstions?
In mail preferences,viewing I have unchecked "display images and embedded
objects in HTML messages".
In mail preferences,junkmail I have "enable junk mail filtering" and
"trust junk mail headers..." both checked.
All junk mail is flagged as junk. (in junkmail,advanced and in rules).
I keep the preview pane collapsed.
I pay attention to flags and don't open junk from strangers.
eMac G4 (build 7W98) 125 GHz, 256 MB, 37 GB Mac OS X (10.3.9) dialup 56K modem

just cleaning up my junk

Suggestion to Apple: Animated GIF's in mail.

[Note: I would prefer to not hear one response from an apple user stating "animated gifs are ugly I'm glad it doesn't work." I too hate them, but read on...]
I recently helped a family of PC users switch to a Pentium iMac. I do their tech support and this has made my life SO much easier
The wife loves sending stupid little animated gifs back and forth to her friends... it's not for us to judge if they're ugly or annoying, they like them. Period.
I am so ashamed to have to go to her when I return her computer today and say "I'm sorry, this awesome and capable computer I have set you up with is unable to play back simple Animated GIF's.
I trust in Apple... playing back an animated gif should NOT be a major security threat. Make it work. Of course I could switch her back to Thunderbird but then that breaks her Address Book as well.
--Dan Dawson
[Owner of three Mac's myself]
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

If her friends are using Outlook Express, then it should work. Here is an excerpt from:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-19275.html
a) Apple Mail can embed animated Gifs in Mime Format Mails, but it doesn't show them animated itself! This means if you send such a Mail to a user with e. g. Outlook Express, he will see the Gif with it's animation, although Apple Mail didn't show it!
b) Even more interesting is this: when a user with Outlook Express sends you an Mail with embeded animated Gif, Apple Mail also shows the animation! Why is this, you may ask? It's because Outlook Express sends the Mail as HTML with MIME Attachment and also does a URL "CID:" reference in the HTML code to the actual embeded animated Gif! Quite nifty!
--- End Quote ---
You can read the site for more information.
The other option is to just use MS-Entourage.
Entourage can synchronize with Apple's Address Book. And, it's naturally going to have support built-in for Microsoft's methods.
As for making suggestions to Apple, you'll get better results by making the request to Apple directly.
They don't comb this discussion forum for ideas. And, tend to ignore what we say here.
So, go to their actual feedback page, and submit your request there:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
At least then you know someone at Apple will actually read it.
There's no guarantee that they'll implement your request. But, you'll have a better chance if you submit your requests there.
Like all requests, the more people that want it, the more likely it will be added. So, get all your friends to request the feature if you want it.
Obviously, if the request comes repeatedly from the same person, they'll probably grow tired of it, and quit reading your requests. But, if several distinctively different people ask for something, they are very likely to consider it.
Hope this helps.

Animated Gif's in Mac Mail

There have been a couple of threads on this now closed without a solution. I discovered how a somewhat tedious way to get an animated gif into a mac mail msg while seeing the animation in action.
I used iWeb to create a blank white pate. I then inserted the animated gif. I posted the page to my website. I placed a bookmark in Safari for this website. Now, when i want to send an email with this animated gif as a signature, I navigate to my website page in Safari, type ⌘I, and this brings up a blank email in MacMail with gif animating. Then just complete your message.

JT,
Thanks for the post. I don't pretend to be a guru. It appears from the other posts that Apple chose to prevent animated gifs from animating in Mac Mail to enhance security. I don't know much about making the gifs. Here's the animated gif on the web page. It's of a Toyota FJ Cruiser.
http://tinyurl.com/4sw3fdh

Sending a animated GIF via .Mac mail

Hi everyone, I know this is the wrong forum, although my question crosses over. I want to send animated GIF pics. through my .Mac account. I downloaded many really cool animated pics. and can only watch them move in Text Edit. Is it possible to send them in the mail, or even attach them in the forum? This is no life or death question, just fun. I want to attach the funny moving little animals to my friends. When I attach them to mail, they no longer move. On my own system I can see them wiggle around only in Text Edit. Many thanks to replies.
Ray

Oh, on the other questions, they can be added to most forums, view the Source of this page, search for DSOM, and you'll see the code required, just replace with your animated gif.
BDAqua

Animated Gifs won't animate when forwarded to other people from mail...

I received a cute series of animated gif files via email today. I decided to forward the mail to a few friends and included myself on the list since I've had issues with forwarded gif files not animating in the past. Several friends received the files in working order. Others, including myself, received what appear to be the first frame of each of the animations but not animating at all.
Any suggestions?
Bruce

try another usb port but usb is a poor way to charge the batt.
if you look under menu/settings/batt, at the bottom it says you won't show a full charge with usb charging.
i have the phone off & charge with wall adapter for 3 hours.

How do I add an animated gif to mail?

How do I add an animated gif to mail and still have the animation active

Dj
I found this complete mail tutorial. Hope this will help you with unread messages.
Regards,
Joseph

"mail contents of this page" won't support animated gifs

Let me start by saying that i know that Mail doesn't support animated gifs. However, up untill last year, i was able to email moving animated gifs by putting them online and mailing the content of the safari page (command i). I haven't made any updates to Mail or safari, yet this feature suddenly stopped working. I am still able to use command with still images, but when i try to use the command on an animated gif, nothing happens and it's grayed out in the menu.
I can't figure out how to email a moving gif via gmail either.
(Just to clarify, I know I can send a gif file, but It's useless if it doesn't show up as a moving image in the recipient's inbox).
Does anyone have a fix for this issue or another idea how to email a moving animated gif?
Many thanks!

Yes, that was the problem. Mail couldn’t save a temporary copy of the message in Drafts because AOL doesn’t let IMAP clients such as Mail to create or manage mailboxes at the root level of the account directory, only as subfolders of Saved, and this causes Mail to not work properly if Store messages on the server is turned ON for any of the mailboxes in Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors. You should turn Store messages on the server OFF for all the standard mailboxes, so that they are stored locally instead.

Animated GIFs in Apple Mail

Does anyone at Apple know when they are going to fix this problem? Animated GIFs work great on my Tiger Apple Mail but not on my wife's MacBook Leopard Apple Mail. In order to view them she has to open Entourage.

Entourage is not a perfect solution either. If your database gets too big on it, you can have permanent data loss from all the data corruption that can happen. Your best bet for animated gifs is to save e-mail messages to your desktop and open them with a web browser. E-mail was never meant for interchange of images. There are too many differing standards for formatting on e-mail to get one consistent nontext e-mail content across all e-mail programs. For more on why, see this article:
http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
I don't work for Apple, but the reasons given in that page I fully agree with.

No Animated GIFs in Mail

I know this is minor compared to some issues I see posted but Mail 3.0 no longer displays animated GIFs. I sent one through Gmail and it didn't display. I checked it in my webmail in Gmail and it displays fine. Something in Mail 3.0 is stopping the proper display of animated GIFs. Anyone have an idea. All my settings are correct. A bug?

to me this is NOT a small issue. I am getting so darn frustrated with Leopard that I am considering just throwing it away and going back to Tiger or panther whatever i had. the gifs don't move. iCal really *****. bad enough that Preview makes you take it out and click to see it move but in email... all my gifs are gone even though they say gif, they do not show up animated and the ones that still are animated, which are very few do not move embedded in the mail. you have to take it out and then press the arrows. I am very very disappointed in Leopard..... too many bugs.... sorry very frustrated. thanks.. if anyone knows please let me know. thanks, sally

Animated GIFs won't display properly in Mail.app

I have a weird problem with animated GIFs received as attachments in Mail.app. On my Mac mini, they're only displayed as the first frame within the Mail message window and the animations don't play. But on my iMac G4, the same messages display the animations properly within Mail.app. Both Macs are currently running Mac OS X 10.4.4, but I've observed this problem since 10.4.3. I have the same software installed on both machines. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

* Test.java
* Created on January 13, 2007, 6:52 PM
* To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
* and open the template in the editor.
package Test;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
* @author Calbrenar
public class Test extends JFrame
    private JList testList;
    private DefaultListModel listModel;
    private JScrollPane serverLogScroller;
    private Container container;
    /** Set up GUI */
    public Test()
       super ("List Test");
       //Get content pane
       container = getContentPane();
       container.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
       listModel = new DefaultListModel();
       listModel.addElement("");
       testList = new JList(listModel);
       testList.setVisibleRowCount(1);
       //testList.setFixedCellHeight(35);
       //testList.setFixedCellWidth(400);
       serverLogScroller = new JScrollPane(testList);
       serverLogScroller.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
       serverLogScroller.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
       container.add( new JScrollPane( testList));
       setSize(700, 75);
       setVisible(true);
    public void addStatus(String str)
       listModel.add(0, str);
       //testList.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 15));
       //serverLogScroller.revalidate();
       container.validate();
    public static void main ( String args[])
       Test application = new Test();
       application.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
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       application.addStatus("+OK Enter Password");
       application.addStatus("-ERR Bad Pass");
} // end class Test

Placing a animated GIF pic with .Mac mail

Hello, I am a pretty experienced user and cannot find a way to attach an animated GIF to my email. I use .Mac mail and downloaded a program to make animated pictures. The only program I can animate my pics in is Text Edit. I did a thorough search and could not find an answer. Any help will be appreciated. Many thanks.

Please help me, I don't ask many questions. I answer more than I ask,
Help..... (Just kidding)
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Ray

Viewing animated gifs in Mail 3.2

We got an animated gif in our email. It works fine in my mail box using mail 2.1.3 (powerbook G4 10.4.11) but not on my wife's Mail 3.2 (macbook 10.5). Any fixes for that?

don't posts the requests on this forum. follow the link that I gave you (click on "here" in my first post. Apple doesn't read these forums so posting requests here is a waste of time.

This is ridiculous... MAIL.APP AND ANIMATED GIFS

Receive an ANIMATED GIF - works fine.
Forward an ANIMATED GIF - it doesn't work
UNTIL
You look at it again in the 'Sent Items' box - then it works fine. (THE RECIPIENT SEES IT WORKING FINE AS WELL)
OBVIOUSLY a bug. BUT - as embarrassed as I am that the issue pertains to such a heinous relic to the web, there MUST be a fix. I've scoured high and low - and not ONE SINGLE DIFINITIVE ANSWER. NOT ONE.

"When in the compose message view, do you really want a big blinky GIF in your face? The message composer is for writing the message, not for viewing it."
Sort of not the point. The issue is that if I RECEIVE a message with an animated GIF - and can see it in its full hidious glory - then I should be able to view it when I forward it to someone.
And whats more, if (God help me) I create an email with an animated GIF, then I should be able to see it in the body of the message - currently I only get the animation once its in the 'Sent' box.
"SO WHAT?" you ask. "BIG DEAL." you remark.
Well, lets say, for instance, that Mr. Ad Agency Exec A wants to send an animated gif that displays a current round of creative to Mr. Client Exec B.
Currently there is no way to view the animation before sending. You can see it if you have recieved it - AND - AFTER you send it, but not during!?!?!?!?!?

Mail & animated GIF's

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