Sending and receiving animated Gif files

You can send and receive them just like any other attachment, but some mail programs won't display them as moving (I've not tried this in Mail). You will have to show them in a browser (save out from the message and drag the resultant file onto the Safari icon).

pputnam wrote:
What is the easiest way to do this? Use a different mail program?

you can both send and receive animated gifs with Mail but it won't play them inline. if you want that feature use a different email client. I believe all other mac email clients (Entourage, Thunderbird, Eudora etc) play animated gifs inline.

the following worked for me. first select all your contacts in Address Book and drag them to the desktop. this will create one big vcard for them. then use this site to convert it to an LDIF file http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/
lastly use the import function in Thunderbird to import the LDIF file into Thunderbird address book.

interesting that animated gifs will work in 10.4 but not 10.5. my wife just forwarded an email with animated gifs that work on her old iBook running 10.4, but not on my mac pro running 10.5.