<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">You can’t disable a single GIF. You can only disable loading of all images—including GIFs.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">You don’t say what mail application you are using, but if it’s Apple Mail:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In the Mail app, under the Mail menu, choose Preferences. On the Viewing tab, u<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">ncheck</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Load remote content in messages</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">This disables all graphics—images and GIFs in received emails. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Dave</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">I've just received a message from a company that includes, in its signature, an embedded gif (as a cid). Please, please tell me there's a way to stop it from playing endlessly when I have the message open? Things moving on my screen when I didn't explicitly authorize them to drive me bananas.</blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span>Shoshanna Green (she/her)</span><br><span>shoshannag@gmail.com</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>mailmate mailing list</span><br><span>mailmate@lists.freron.com</span><br><span>https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>