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SeaMonkey and a non-working animated gif
Chantelle Johnston
2011-03-23 11:03:42 UTC
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To whom it may concern

I am currently putting together a newsletter that has an animated gif as the masthead and using SeaMonkey to send it out.

The .gif file itself works fine (when opened in Safari, firefox, Internet Explorer and SeaMonkey). However when it is placed into the Newsletter and sent out it doesn't work. Yet when you save the masthead to the desktop (from the newsletter sent out through SeaMonkey) and then open it in any of the above mentioned it works.

gif created (working) --> in SeaMonkey Composer animated.gif is inserted --> copy and paste into mail (Compose new) --> send out --> recipient received NL. animated.gif not working.

Is there anything thing that needs to be done in order to ensure that the gif works once the mail has gone out (or before the mail goes out).

Thanking you in advance for any and all help.

Chantelle
Cruz, Jaime
2011-03-23 11:40:02 UTC
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Post by Chantelle Johnston
To whom it may concern
I am currently putting together a newsletter that has an animated gif as the masthead and using SeaMonkey to send it out.
The .gif file itself works fine (when opened in Safari, firefox, Internet Explorer and SeaMonkey). However when it is placed into the Newsletter and sent out it doesn't work. Yet when you save the masthead to the desktop (from the newsletter sent out through SeaMonkey) and then open it in any of the above mentioned it works.
gif created (working) --> in SeaMonkey Composer animated.gif is inserted --> copy and paste into mail (Compose new) --> send out --> recipient received NL. animated.gif not working.
Is there anything thing that needs to be done in order to ensure that the gif works once the mail has gone out (or before the mail goes out).
Thanking you in advance for any and all help.
Chantelle
Seamonkey has a setting to either block animated GIFs, or play them just
once. Have you got that set and forgot about it?
--
Jaime A. Cruz
President
Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club
http://www.nassauwings.org/

AMA District 34
http://www.AMADistrict34.com/
Pop's Run
http://www.popsrun.org/
Chantelle Johnston
2011-03-23 12:15:18 UTC
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Where would one change that setting, as silly as the question may sound, I haven't adjusted any settings and can't seen to find anything. Would that apply to outgoing messages too?

Chantelle
Post by Chantelle Johnston
To whom it may concern
I am currently putting together a newsletter that has an animated gif as the masthead and using SeaMonkey to send it out.
The .gif file itself works fine (when opened in Safari, firefox, Internet Explorer and SeaMonkey). However when it is placed into the Newsletter and sent out it doesn't work. Yet when you save the masthead to the desktop (from the newsletter sent out through SeaMonkey) and then open it in any of the above mentioned it works.
gif created (working) --> in SeaMonkey Composer animated.gif is inserted --> copy and paste into mail (Compose new) --> send out --> recipient received NL. animated.gif not working.
Is there anything thing that needs to be done in order to ensure that the gif works once the mail has gone out (or before the mail goes out).
Thanking you in advance for any and all help.
Chantelle
Seamonkey has a setting to either block animated GIFs, or play them just once. Have you got that set and forgot about it?
--
Jaime A. Cruz
President
Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club
http://www.nassauwings.org/
AMA District 34
http://www.AMADistrict34.com/
Pop's Run
http://www.popsrun.org/
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David E. Ross
2011-03-23 15:50:54 UTC
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Post by Chantelle Johnston
To whom it may concern
I am currently putting together a newsletter that has an animated gif as the masthead and using SeaMonkey to send it out.
The .gif file itself works fine (when opened in Safari, firefox, Internet Explorer and SeaMonkey). However when it is placed into the Newsletter and sent out it doesn't work. Yet when you save the masthead to the desktop (from the newsletter sent out through SeaMonkey) and then open it in any of the above mentioned it works.
gif created (working) --> in SeaMonkey Composer animated.gif is inserted --> copy and paste into mail (Compose new) --> send out --> recipient received NL. animated.gif not working.
Is there anything thing that needs to be done in order to ensure that the gif works once the mail has gone out (or before the mail goes out).
Thanking you in advance for any and all help.
Chantelle
I suggest that you create your newsletter as a Web page and then send
out a brief message with a link to that page. See my
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/newsletters.html>.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages
posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent
because of spam from that source.
Cruz, Jaime
2011-03-24 03:01:54 UTC
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Post by Chantelle Johnston
Where would one change that setting, as silly as the question may sound, I haven't adjusted any settings and can't seen to find anything. Would that apply to outgoing messages too?
Chantelle
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Images
--
Jaime A. Cruz
President
Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club
http://www.nassauwings.org/

AMA District 34
http://www.AMADistrict34.com/
Pop's Run
http://www.popsrun.org/
Chantelle Johnston
2011-03-24 06:44:58 UTC
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Well I send out a newsletter once a week with no problem via GoldMine. However the newsletter I am working on now if for a client who insists on being able to edit the entire thing herself and send it out. It has been designed in HTML however she cannot edit that. So I had to find something that is easy to use. I came across SeaMonkey and it works perfectly. Apart from the fact the animated gif is not working.

GoldMine works no problem, however the client is not willing to pay for it.

I looked at the settings and it is set to allow for continuous loop.

Once the HTML has been copied into Composer and saved, the animation works if you open it as a web page, but once you send it out it doesn't.

Baring in mind that people are using outlook, mail... various others.

It can't be a problem on everyone elses machine as I testing the newsletter via GoldMine and the animation worked no problem.

Is there anything else anyone could suggest? As I said, I checked the settings and they're set to accept images and look continuously.


Chantelle






I suggest that you create your newsletter as a Web page and then send
out a brief message with a link to that page. See my
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/newsletters.html>.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
Date: 24 March 2011 5:01:54 AM SAST
Subject: Re: SeaMonkey and a non-working animated gif
Post by Chantelle Johnston
Where would one change that setting, as silly as the question may sound, I haven't adjusted any settings and can't seen to find anything. Would that apply to outgoing messages too?
Chantelle
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Images
--
Jaime A. Cruz
President
Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club
http://www.nassauwings.org/
AMA District 34
http://www.AMADistrict34.com/
Pop's Run
http://www.popsrun.org/
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Ray_Net
2011-03-24 09:14:48 UTC
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Post by Chantelle Johnston
Well I send out a newsletter once a week with no problem via GoldMine. However the newsletter I am working on now if for a client who insists on being able to edit the entire thing herself and send it out. It has been designed in HTML however she cannot edit that. So I had to find something that is easy to use. I came across SeaMonkey and it works perfectly. Apart from the fact the animated gif is not working.
GoldMine works no problem, however the client is not willing to pay for it.
I looked at the settings and it is set to allow for continuous loop.
Once the HTML has been copied into Composer and saved, the animation works if you open it as a web page, but once you send it out it doesn't.
It works when you look at... in the "Sent" folder.
Chantelle Johnston
2011-03-24 10:43:49 UTC
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But it doesn't work anywhere else and that's where the problem lies.
Post by Ray_Net
Post by Chantelle Johnston
Well I send out a newsletter once a week with no problem via GoldMine. However the newsletter I am working on now if for a client who insists on being able to edit the entire thing herself and send it out. It has been designed in HTML however she cannot edit that. So I had to find something that is easy to use. I came across SeaMonkey and it works perfectly. Apart from the fact the animated gif is not working.
GoldMine works no problem, however the client is not willing to pay for it.
I looked at the settings and it is set to allow for continuous loop.
Once the HTML has been copied into Composer and saved, the animation works if you open it as a web page, but once you send it out it doesn't.
It works when you look at... in the "Sent" folder.
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Cruz, Jaime
2011-03-27 14:30:16 UTC
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Post by Chantelle Johnston
But it doesn't work anywhere else and that's where the problem lies.
Very strange... if it works in the "Sent" folder, then it SHOULD be
working on the receiving side as well. What happens when you send it to
yourself?
--
Jaime A. Cruz
President
Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club
http://www.nassauwings.org/

AMA District 34
http://www.AMADistrict34.com/
Pop's Run
http://www.popsrun.org/
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