IPhone 4S Messaging quirks

Just activated my new iPhone 4S yesterday. Got a problem when using the Messaging function sending a simple msg to an email address. With my old LG phone when I sent a message (in normal email address format) via Messaging, the Recevier gets it from me ([email protected]). Now doing the same thing from the iPhone, the Receiver gets the message from [email protected] with message in a .TXT document as an attachment! BTW 214-xxx-xxxx represents my phone nbr.
iPhone is sending simple texts as a .txt document attachment! This is annoying ... how do I revert back to the orginal format (sender being [email protected]) WITHOUT attachment? Thanks in advance.

Fuzzylogic wrote:
Thanks, that worked (I turned off 'Show Subject Field' under Message settings), however iPhone still sends messages from [email protected], instead of from ...vtext.com, but I guess I can live with that.
Probably because technically, the messages you are sending are mms messages when you send them to email addresses...vzwpix.com would represent mms messages versus vtext.com being sms messages. At least that has always been my understanding.

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