New email addresses!

Ok just going to be a quick post as I'm a bit ill and busy!

New email system is live, as in the email address you need to send pics in has changed for registered users.

Why?

Well I didn't really want to, but it needed to be done.

Basically, this has been in the works for many months, but I only just got the time to do it. Software updates and a few bugs I won't go into just yet, as the old method still works for the time being until people get used to it, meant that I had to alter the way emails are sent in :-(

What I had wanted to do was to change it to your username and then your password, eg aleco+mypassword@pics.mobmms.com, but unfortunately that was impossible as several people have characters in their usernames and passwords which are illegal when it comes to sending emails...
Sorry to this user but you're the best example I've got of it:
http://www.mobmms.com/view/index.php?action=profile;u=6513 is a prime example - that username just would never work as the start of an email address!

So we were stuck with a decision - as usernames became effectively a worthless part of the address, we scrapped that part, and instead of just a completely random string of letters and numbers (eg f3kj4le2 or something), we opted for what we've got now - a sort of half-pronounceable random password followed by your album/user id.

Also people seemed to be struggling with the + part of the email address so I've tried to minimise the useage of that for just the main part of the email addy.



So...hope that clears things up for the mo, I might explain more after the full changeover!

Feedback, as always, is welcome