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Email Photos into Your Account

It's fun and easy to upload photos into your account by sending them via email. You can do this using both your regular email program and also using your smart phone, since it has both a camera and the ability to directly email photos as standard email attachments.

Watch this short video showing how to upload photos by email:

By default your account will only allow you to upload photos into your account. See the section 'Allow Your Friends' below if you want your friends to be able to email photos into your account.

Take a moment and use the Email Settings screen to add all your email addresses to your account, including your smart phone email address, so you can send photo emails from any of them.

Photos Emailed By You

How to Email a Photo to Yourself:

  1. Address the email to photo@keepandshare.com.
  2. Send the email from an email address you have registered on your KeepandShare account (use the Email Settings screen to register more emails on your account).
  3. Attach up to 5 photos as file attachments - the photo must be in one of the 3 supported formats (JPG, GIF or PNG). The total size of the attached photos should be <= 20 mb.
  4. The email's subject line will be placed on the photo as its title.
  5. KeepandShare looks at your sending email address and identifies the destination KeepandShare account.
  6. The emailed photos are placed in your photo library and also in an album folder named 'Emailed Photos'.
  7. You (the account owner) are sent an email confirmation listing the photos that were uploaded, the sender, and the destination album and folder.
It's this easy: Let's say the email address registered on your KeepandShare account is 'marysmith@yahoo.com'. Log in to your marysmith@yahoo.com account, attach some photo files to an email, and address it to 'photo@keepandshare.com'. You'll find them in your Photo tab within a few minutes!

If you have multiple KeepandShare accounts registered under the same email address, then the Email Settings screen shows you a drop down allowing you to pick which account receives photo and file uploads you send from that your email address.

Allow Your Friends to Email Photos to You

If you'd like your friends to be able send photos via email into your KeepandShare account, turn this feature on in the Email Settings screen. Choose the setting 'Turn on this feature for myself and everyone else'. This is the easiest setting, as it allows anyone with your special email address to send you photos.

If you want additional security, you can also use this control to create a 'white list' of allowed email addresses, or a 'black list' of email addresses that will be blocked from sending. If you pick either the 'white list' or 'black list' you must then also add emails to the list using the 'Add Address' button.

Your friends cannot use the simple photo@keepandshare.com address, because KeepandShare will not know to which user they are sending the photo. Your friends must use the special email address that is unique to your account (it will look something like 'photo+5af4@keepandshare.com'). You can find your special email address on the account's Email Settings screen:

You Will be Notified by Email

Whenever KeepandShare receives files or photos into your account, KeepandShare sends you an 'Upload Email Notification' to you summarizing what was uploaded including the sender's email address, and the destination folder and/or album. You can click on the link in the email to go directly to the folder containing the new uploads.

If the email notification is not appearing in your inbox, it is invariably because of pesky spam filters are stopping it. Please note that spam filters will often times stop some emails from KeepandShare.com when they also are allowing other emails from KeepandShare.com to come through.

Take these steps:
  1. Look in your spam folders and check the spam filters both in your personal mail system and with your Internet service providers (e.g., your cable service or your DSL service or your company's IT department).
  2. All spam filters should allow emails from keepandshare.com.
  3. Another step we recommend is to add 'notify@keepandshare.com' to your email address book (the exact email address that the notification emails are sent from).

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