Uploading to Flickr using your Treo and MMS
April 9, 2007 – 9:48 am | by Azizi
For the past few months I have been trying to upload photos to my Flickr account from my Treo 650. With Flickr, you can upload by email. A unique email address is assigned to you. Enter the title of the photo in the Subject Field, and notes in the text field. Click send, and in a minute or two the photo will appear in your email account.
Sounds simple, right? Not so much. I tried sending email using Versamail and my Gmail account, but each time I received an error saying that no attachment was included. Somehow, the photos would not get uploaded when sending to Flickr. This is Flickr-specific, because I had no problems when sending to other email addresses.
I never found a solution via Versamail and Gmail, but it turns out there was a simpler solution for what I wanted to do. My mobile operator allows sending MMS to email, something which I never tried before. It really is as simple as it sounds. Instead of sending MMS to another mobile number as usual, all I need to do now is enter the unique Flickr email address in the To: field on Messaging, and it just works!
You can view my Flickr photos here. The latest few are sent via MMS.
2 Responses to “Uploading to Flickr using your Treo and MMS”
By Palmdoc on Apr 9, 2007 | Reply
Strange. I don’t have any problem blogging via email using Versamail. Then again I use my webhosting’s pop mail and not crappy TMNut or Screamyx.
By Jill on May 2, 2007 | Reply
This works great. I don’t have email set up on my phone but wanted to email pictures to Flickr. Thank you!