Using animated gifs in emails

I've made an animated gif using flash an am trying to make it
so the gif appears in my signature at the bottom of every email. I
can place it in the signature but when I send the email the gif is
static and doesn't move. Also I'm using a mac and when I recieve an
animated gif in an email from a PC the gif is also static. I need
to be able to send animated gifs in emails from PC and Mac using
Mircosoft Outlook for PC and Entourage for MAC. Any help would be
much appreciated.
Cheers,

this really has nothing to do with flash at all - you have no
control over this as the recipient of
your email may not be using an email client that supports
animated gifs - does your gif work when
viewed ina web page?
you must realize there are a myriad ways people check email -
sometimes via a browser, handheld
device, email client software, etc...not all support animated
gifs and the ones that do may have
that option turned off by user.
i would consult the support section of the email software
your recipients use.
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Luke H wrote:
> I've made an animated gif using flash an am trying to
make it so the gif
> appears in my signature at the bottom of every email. I
can place it in the
> signature but when I send the email the gif is static
and doesn't move. Also
> I'm using a mac and when I recieve an animated gif in an
email from a PC the
> gif is also static. I need to be able to send animated
gifs in emails from PC
> and Mac using Mircosoft Outlook for PC and Entourage for
MAC. Any help would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
>

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This is where you're wrong. Dipshits like you post **** like this all the time when it's readily available information that can be searched for WITHOUT >hosing up our forums.Great, give me a link, or even a search term to use on google or these forums. Before you give me search terms, you might want to actually check and make sure the answer is somewhere there...are you out of your freakin mind?!?!?!
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