MMS going to my email instead of Messages app

My MMS has been working fine since AT&T started offering it (except for getting pics from Verizon customers, but that is what it is). My wife and I have identical iPhones and they've both been sending and receiving MMS messages normally.

Then all of a sudden in the last two weeks, whenever my wife sends me an MMS message it goes to my email instead and shows up with a subject heading of "Multimedia Message" listed as being from an email address of (her mobile number)@mms.att.net. She is doing nothing differently than she ever did before when sending them. She still receives them correctly from me, and all others who send me MMS messages still go into my Messages app. Only the MMS from her are going to my email.

Anyone else encounter this? AT&T support said they saw nothing odd with our settings on their end and can't figure out why it's happening. Thanks for any input...

-pc

MacBook 2.4 Ghz Intel (unibody), I-Book G4 1.33 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iPhone 3GS

Posted on Feb 13, 2010 11:26 AM

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Feb 13, 2010 12:59 PM in response to Jim VanLeeuwen

Answered my own question--user error. Apparently my wife accidentally chose my email address when sending me a photo three weeks ago instead of selecting my phone number (which would have thus sent it to the messages app). This created a second "thread" in her list of Messages threads, and then every time she opened this thread thereafter, my email address was the default recipient even though she was sending MMS or SMS messages.

Anyway... thanks for looking!

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