System and method for notification of digital images to be shared via a service provider

1. A method for organizing and sharing digital images over a communication network to a single user, the single user having more than one electronic address, comprising the steps of:

providing an image server by a service provider for storing the digital images for the user, said user registering on the server two or more electronic addresses owned by the user which may receive e-mail for the user;

said server recording one of said two or more electronic addresses as a primary electronic address for the user in accordance with instructions from said user; and

said server automatically forwarding a plurality of e-mail, at least one of which is addressed to said primary electronic address and at least another of which is addressed to a second one of said registered two or more electronic addresses owned by the user, to said primary electronic address in one combined electronic message that is received over the communication network, said e-mail including a link to shared images and/or image folders.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said two or more electronic addresses each comprise an SMS address.

3. The method to claim 1 wherein said primary electronic address comprises an MMS address.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein one of said electronic addresses comprises a phone number.

5. A system for organizing and managing digital images over a communication network for a single user, the single user having more than one electronic address, comprising:

a server for storing the digital images for the user, for registering two or more electronic addresses owned by the user which are capable of receiving e-mail for the user over the communication network, for designating one of said two or more electronic addresses as a primary electronic address for the user, and for automatically forwarding in a single combined e-mail a plurality of electronic messages that include at least one electronic message addressed to said primary electronic address and at least another addressed to a second one of said two or more electronic addresses for use by said user, the e-mail including a link to the digital images and/or image folders stored on said server.

6. A system according to claim 5 wherein said communication network comprises the Internet.

7. A system according to claim 5 wherein said two or more electronic addresses each comprise an MMS address.

8. A system according to claim 5 wherein said primary electronic address comprises an SMS address.

9. A system according to claim 5 wherein said one of said two or more electronic addresses comprises an electronic address of a phone.