Text Messages show email instead of phone number..Help!

When I send a text, it is ID as coming from my email instead of my phone number or the contact info. I have already gone into settings, messages, receive at, caller id and my phone number is checked...but still having the problem...any suggestions?????

go back into settings at the received at and log out of your email and see if that works.

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