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Make sharing via email really work

The Issues

Tired of your friends emailing you huge photo or video attachments? Getting a little frustrated when your co-worker emails you another 85-slide PowerPoint presentation? And what about you? Are you clogging up everyone else's inboxes by sending big email attachments?

Share's Solution

There's no denying that email is a great communication tool, but it's a pretty lousy way to share media. Share can help.

• Simply compose your email and attach your files as usual (we support more than 100 types of files)
• Address the email to your Share account and include your recipient's email address in the body of the message. Share will upload and store the attached files in your secure Share account and then forward a lightweight graphical preview email to your recipient(s).
• This preview email will download quickly in your friend's inbox, take up little if any of their email storage limit, give them a quick glance of all the files you've sent, and let them click and view in detail only the files they want - with no sign-up required for them to view your media on Ovi
• Plus all the files you've sent to each recipient are securely archived, so they can easily go back and review anything you've sent them in the past - no more, "Can you resend that file to me?"

1. Compose an email and attach the files you wish to share, just as you would normally do.
2. Find your Share "upload email address" by going to your My Media page, which is the repository for all of your media on Ovi. Click on "Upload media" in the "Actions for this page" section on the right. You will be taken to your Basic Upload page where you will see an email address listed under "Upload from email" - this is your "upload email address." This goes in the To: line of your email
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3. Begin the body of the email message with a ".s" (for "share") followed by the email addresses of the people you'd like to share the attached files with. It would look like this:
   
   .s bill34@hotmail.com sallj@msn.com
4. Add the rest of your message to the body of the email with a ".m" followed by your message. Now you are ready to send the email.

This tells Share to upload and store the attached files in your secure Share account. We will also automatically send a lightweight "share email" on your behalf to the recipients with thumbnail images that link back to your media on Ovi.

Here's a more advanced tip for email: you can unbury media lost in your email inbox with a simple forwarding email to Ovi. Just forward any email with a media file attached to that same custom Share email address, and the file will be automatically uploaded. Rescue and rediscover your media!