Animated GIF as email signature in Gmail, Outlook, yahoo, Hotmail?

Over the weekend, I completed several tests to correctly answer this question. I used Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Eudora, Outlook, Entorage, etc to send and receive messages with animated gif images. My answer below is the result of this research and testing.1) The easiest way to insert an animated gif into an e-mail message is to use Microsoft Word.

Compose your email in Word, paste (or insert) your gif into your message and send it using the Email feature in Word. This will ensure that your message is properly formatted and that your animated GIF is viewable in the largest number of e-mail clients.2) Note that Outlook 2007 does not support animated GIF pictures. http://www.clickz.com/3625034 Almost all other email clients that I've tested, including Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and Hotmail do support animated gifs.3) The biggest obsticle that you'll have inserting animated GIF images is that many email clients (including Gmail, outlook, hotmail and yahoo) block images (all images) unless the receiver explicitly asks for them to be displayed.

This is a security feature to prevent "web bugs" from tracking email messages. 4) If you specify exactly what e-mail client you're using, I'll be happy to write up a complete step-by-step outline of the best way to insert an animated gif. However, the way that Microsoft Word formats and sends email is the most effective way to accomplish this.5) If you're trying to acomplish any sort of direct e-mail marketing give this service a try: http://www.mailchimp.com/ I sure hope that this helps Roger!

1. It isn't considerate to have an animated gif in your signature since these are often large, and use lots of bandwidth. 2.

Most clients don't connect to remote servers for pictures anymore because of the problems with malicious images. kassj.com/netiquette/netiquette.html#6.

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Just open the gif in another tab and drag it to your email client's compose window. It will appear there with the animation. When you send it, your recipient will probably have to click something like "Allow remote images from this sender."

I've tested this on Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail and it always worked for me (I'm using Firefox, of course). The same technique works for Yahoo and Hotmail signatures, if you allow rich text. Gmail doesn't like html signatures, but there are ways around that.

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I would suggest you use rich text format and then insert the gif as a link pointing to the location on your server. I would recommended the create hyperlink button if you have one. I am really interested to see this work.

If you like I can private message you my email and you could send me the link to see if it is working.?

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