Tip Details Add a Related Tip

Rate as: Positive Negative

Upload pictures to flickr via email

flickr has a new feature that allows you to upload images via email. This is a great feature to use if you are behind a firewall that doesn't allow access to flickr, or if you want to upload images from a mobile device that has email but not web capability.

To set this up, you need to find out your flickr email address. Log in to flickr then select the "Your Account" link in the "You" tab. Once you get to the "Your Account" page, you'll see a tab labeled "Email", click on it. On this you'll see an email address labeled "Your Flickr upload email". This is the address you mail picture to to get them upload onto flickr.

You can email multiple pictures at once. But if you limit yourself to one picture per email, the subject of the email will be converted to the title of the picture, and any text in the body of the email will be converted to the description of the photo. You can also include tags for your pictures.
Rating: 100% positive, 2 total Votes
Categories: flickr email digital photos
Added: on Jan 31, 2008 at 8:35 am
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: email flickr picture upload photo

Comments on this Tip

Add a Comment
"if you are behind a firewall that doesn't allow access to flickr"
nice idee but surely that same firewall would also remove images/objects from your e-mail.
– Added by angela cooper on Feb 01, 2008 at 7:48 am
Most firewalls do not restrict outgoing email (even though they may be capable of it).
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 03, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I strongly discourage relying on Flickr email upload as I found out the hard way during a long trip; basically I couldn't install flickr's uploadr in web cafe so I relied on email upload instead. Turns out that some of the pictures were making it and others not. Doesn't matter if you send from hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail. Flickr just drops *SILENTLY* some of the pictures. It makes me very mad. None of the others (Fotki, Smugmug) have this problem. Flickr's support just says "tough sh*t, we don't officially support multiple photos per email". Argg!!
– Added by an anonymous user on Aug 06, 2008 at 3:20 am
Your Comment:
(how to format)
Rate This Tip:

Verify Humanity:
Sorry, we know it's annoying, but please enter the characters shown in the image to the left so that we know you're an actual person and not an evil spammer. Thanks.
       

Related Tips

Repository of flickr tools

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 19, 2008 at 7:41 am

Watermarking digital photos

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 31, 2007 at 9:19 am

Emailing photos from the iPhone at full resolution

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Aug 07, 2009 at 10:44 am

Hiding the tab bar in Thunderbird 3

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 13, 2009 at 8:46 am

Emailing more than 5 photos on the iPhone

100% positive, 1 comment - last added on Dec 14, 2009 at 2:55 am
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 08, 2009 at 10:35 am

Adding cc and bcc address when sending email from a Droid phone

Categories: Droid Android email
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 30, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Customize Thunderbird email folders

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Oct 23, 2009 at 7:14 am

Opening multiple twitter accounts

Categories: twitter email hack
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Aug 23, 2009 at 3:13 pm

Display your flickr photos in Facebook

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 16, 2009 at 12:53 pm

Saving draft emails on the iPhone

Categories: iPhone email
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 20, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Send anonymous email

Categories: email anonymous free
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jan 01, 2010 at 8:59 am

Setting the Return-Path header when using mail in PHP

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 28, 2009 at 2:29 pm

Setting up sendmail with a catch-all for unknown email addresses

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 02, 2009 at 7:18 am

Adding attachments when sending email from a Droid phone

0% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 01, 2009 at 7:45 am

Show links when composing mail on a Mac

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 12, 2009 at 7:56 am

Changing the iPhone email signature

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Sep 22, 2009 at 5:14 pm

Mailing web pages using Safari

Categories: Safari email
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Aug 29, 2009 at 9:23 pm

Change the default Mail client on a Mac

Categories: Mac email customization
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Aug 01, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Upload photos to Facebook using email

Categories: Facebook email photos
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 26, 2009 at 9:54 am

Change the default email client in Firefox

0% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 08, 2009 at 3:52 pm