Hi Kawal, iMessage requires your Apple Id to work, but you don't have to add any email addresses which means iMessages are only delivered to your mobile number. As far as I know nobody can send an iMessage to the email that is your Apple Id unless you add that email in "Settings" "Messages".
I am not sure what you mean exactly by the sentence in your message: "What it is, I want to not associate an e-mail address with I message but when I do that, any messages I wish to send to an I message user, they will send at normal Text MS message even though I message is on." You say you don't want to associate an email with iMessage, but you also say "when I do that" which I understand "but when I do associate an email with iMessage". As far as receiving messages, any messages sent by somebody who uses iOS 5 or 6 and who has iMessage enabled will be send/received as an iMessage whether they send it to your mobile phone number or an email which you associated with iMessage. As I said, I am a bit unclear what exactly you mean so maybe you can explain further. I personally like to send/receive iMessages if it's possible because even though I have an unlimited texting plan iMessages have advantages, e.g. the 160 character limit does not apply, you know when my message was received and I can see if somebody is replying. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 9:07 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Email address in iMessage Hello. I have a similar problem though it's on the phone. I am going to copy this to the I phone list just in case any one can help there too. What it is, I want to not associate an e-mail address with I message but when I do that, any messages I wish to send to an I message user, they will send at normal Text MS message even though I message is on. This did not happen in IOS5, and it didn't matter if you had an e-mail or not. So why is this happening. Have others done this? If I want I message, I have to associate an e-mail address to do so. Hope some one can help. Kawal. On 13 Oct 2012, at 14:53, Jeff Berwick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I added a new email address in the account tab of iMessage preferences. I think it may consider this the default account now, which is not what I want. Is there a way to reorder or delete this? If there is, I can't figure it out. > > Any assistance is greatly appreciated. > > Tia, > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
