Post to your circle by email

This is for anyone in a circle who'd like to share by email. At the end, your photos or note are in the circle for everyone.

Your personal circle email address

Everyone in a circle has their own email address, three simple words like [email protected]. Email photos and notes to it and they post to the circle as you. It only works from the email addresses you've confirmed on your account, so send from one of those.

When you write a message, it becomes your note, or the caption on your photos, and the subject line is left out. If you send photos with no message, the subject line becomes the caption.

You'll find your address in two places: under Your posting address in your circle's settings, and on your personal contact card. Choose Copy to copy it, or Send me my contact card to save it to your phone.

If someone else has your address

Anyone in the circle can get a new address for themselves.

1. Open your circle, choose Circle options, then Settings.
2. Under Your posting address, choose Reset address.
3. Your new address shows straight away, with a note: Address reset. The old one stops working in 10 minutes, so anything already on its way still arrives.
4. Changed your mind? Choose Undo in that note before you leave the page, within those 10 minutes. Your old address comes back, and the new one is dropped.

Anyone who saved the old address will need the new one, so we email it to you with a fresh contact card. You can reset your address up to three times a day.

Your saved contact creates a new post, even if your email has a reply subject or quotes an old summary. To answer an existing conversation, open it in your circle on the website. Summary reply addresses are separate and can be used once within 14 days.

Replying to a summary email

You can send one reply to each summary email within 14 days. Use a verified email address on your account. Only your own comment or photos are shared, so there's no need to quote the summary.

Already replied, or is the email older than 14 days? Open your circle on the website to keep the conversation going. For a new post by email, use your saved personal circle contact instead. Don't save a summary's reply address as your regular contact or share it with anyone.

• Add a photo. Attach one or more photos to your reply and they appear in your circle like any other photo.
• Add a comment. Type a message and reply. It shows up as a comment on the post if your summary covered just one post, and on the summary if it covered more.

You don't need to sign in for either.

Replying to an email about a post

When we email you about a post in your circle, such as a new post or someone mentioning you, you can reply to that email to add a comment on that post. Everyone in the circle will see it. Use a verified email address on your account, and reply within 14 days of when we sent that email. Each email takes one reply.

If your reply includes a photo or file, or the post is no longer available, it is shared with your circle as a new post instead.

Stopping the summary emails

Replying STOP to a summary email, while that summary’s reply address is still unused and within its 14-day window, stops this circle's emails and its texts. You can also change this under Notifications in your circle on the website, or ask the person who set up your circle to turn your summary emails off. See Choose how you hear from your circle.

What's next

• Your circle's number and posting address
• My text or email didn't post
• Choose how you hear from your circle

Need help?

If something doesn't look right, get in touch and we'll help.