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One of my favorite web-based iPhone apps is pxPipe, a utility that allows you to upload photos to a facebook account via email. (Why facebook doesn’t already allow one to upload a photo by email is beyond me.)

Wait, that opening sentence should be completely past tense; the pxPipe service was discontinued. I guess it happened recently based on an intomobile entry from last week touting the then month-old service.

I dropped a note to alwaysBETA, the creators of pxPipe:

I ventured over to pxPipe.com and found that you’ve discontinued the service stating, “Facebook now allows photo uploads from arbitrary email addresses.”

I think you may be mistaken here. I attempted to send a photo from my iPhone to my Facebook account to mobile@facebook.com and photos@facebook.com; both times I received this automated response: “Sorry, we cannot support uploads sent via email. You sent from GMail. If you are sending from a phone, it must be configured to send directly.”

Those email addresses only work with MMS messages. As you probably know, iPhones have SMS capabilities, but not MMS.

PxPipe was a great tool and there’s still a need for it; I hope you guys reconsider your decision.

Cheers,
-Fredo

We’ll see what happens.