This is all well and good. BUT - Yahoo! Photos apparently will ONLY allow a phone to upload photos from one's camera phone if the 10- digit number is part of the email address that the camera phone picture comes from. For example: I cannot upload a camera pic to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - Yahoo! sends me an SMS telling me the upload did not happen. However, sending the camera phone pic from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (just a pretend number) works fine. I changed one of my ISP email account to make the "send from" email address follow the latter (10-digit number only), and it worked fine, and I received an SMS to my phone that the pic was uploaded. I checked and it was. Now here is the pickle - if you setup an email alias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the "send from" email address WILL ONLY be that alias name. I do not see how you can originate an MMS from a T- Mobile camera phone (not an email from a built-in email client, but a standard MMS) and have the "send from" email address be in the format it needs to be so that Yahoo! Photos will properly recognize it as coming from a camera phone and categorize it under the appropriate user's mobile uploads folder. So - you can still receive to either "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - either works for receiving. BUT, you cannot send from (at least through MMS) the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" address and have Yahoo! Photos work. For those of use with a handset without a built-in email client (where we can control the "send from" address"), but only an MMS client, we are stuck. I cannot believe Yahoo! did not research the specific pitfalls of each major U.S. carrier that would have uncovered this. Granted, many (if not most) current T-Mobile users probablu have never figured out how to setup the alias for their phone number's email address, which means their default 10diti number is still the "send from" and "send to" email address defaulted to whatever their number is. But for those of use that have setup an email alias, and have only the MMS client available to us, Yahoo! Photos does not work. I even tried setting my alias name to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to just try and get my phone number at least as part of the "send from" portion of the email address - no go. This bugs me, since it would be nice to use Yahoo! Photos instead of having to use the Test America camera blog now. *sigh*. Unless someone knows of a way to completely rid my T-Mobile account from any and all email name aliases (a prior suggestion is to drop t-zones and add it again, but I did this once and the prior alias came right back), I am giving up and not wasting any more time here. Coulda been nice. Google - please, please start a moblog service! --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once you set up the alias, it can't be deleted, only changed. You can, however, still receive the emails at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Setting up an alias doesn't remove that option. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: January 25, 2005 11:02:30 AM GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: [T-Mobile-US] Re: Stray e-mail to my mobile phone > > > > I too had problem with alias...not as much as getting emails from > other people but simply just removing alias so my address would be > in the format of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I needed to revert back to the old format so I could use Yahoo > Mobile photos service. In the description of the service it says > that the device's e-mail address must be in numerical format instead > of alias. So I called T-Mobile and told them to remove my alias. > The guy said it's done and will go into effect within 24 > hours...BS... it never did. Called again. I was told it can not be > done (that was regulal customer lack-of-service rep). Then I called > the data support...the guy was VERY polite and said that he will > transfer me to the right person as they only deal with data issues. > The person I was trnasferred to said that the only way is to delete > my T-Zones. I was a bit scared as I suspected it would screw up > something with my plan or features and then some other dodo would > tell me "sorry we can not reinstate it". Well the guy assured me > this would not happen. It did not happen...what also did not happen > was the e-mail alias was and still is there...so unfortunately I > just gave up. But now that I see I'm not the only one with e-mail > issues I wonder if I should reinstate my ticket again. > > > > > > > > > - - - - > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. 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