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Why Does Thunderbird Strip Animated Gifs from message?

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webdevtim
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I noticed that on other email clients that animated gifs survive the send process and the recipient can have the benefit of seeing the animation. When I send emails from Thunderbird that contain animated gifs the recipients simply sees the alt text in place of the animated gif.

Is there a setting in Thunderbird where I can change this behavior?

I noticed that on other email clients that animated gifs survive the send process and the recipient can have the benefit of seeing the animation. When I send emails from Thunderbird that contain animated gifs the recipients simply sees the alt text in place of the animated gif. Is there a setting in Thunderbird where I can change this behavior?

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Zenos
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Are you embedding the gif or sending its URL?