IMessage Activation Additional Email

iMessage with my Apple ID email has been working fine since I aquired my new iPhone 4s.
I am unable to add any additional email addresses in the "Receive At" settings for Messages. When I attempt to add my other two email addresses (Cox.net & Gmail) I receive the following error message. "iMessage Activation: An error occured while verifying your email".
Anybody have a fix for this?
Thanks,

I received the  "An error occured while verifying your email" message when trying to add an additional email to receive imessages. I tried this on several differenct devices (iphone 4s, ipod 5, ipad 2). The only way I could get this to work was to log in to appleid.apple.com with my apple id. Add your alternate email address . A verification email will automatically be sent. Go to you email account, open the verification email from Apple and follow the instructions to verify your email. Once you have completed these steps go to Settings>Messages>Receive At>Add Another Email on your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. Enter your verified email address and hit return.
While this doesn't solve the problem of being able to verify directly from your ios device, it is a work around to allow you to add additional emails for iMessage.

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