12-30-2010, 10:28 PM | #1 |
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What to do - ERROR: Failed to email book
Hi,
I've been using Calibre for a few months now and have it set up to send a bunch of free news subs daily to my Kindle 3G. It worked great until about mid-December when all of a sudden it stopped working. Looking at the errors, this is a copy/paste example: ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Failed to email book: <b>Failed</b>: Email msnbc.com to (my-email-address)@free.kindle.com Email msnbc.com to (my-email-address)@free.kindle.com Sending failed... Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 116, in run File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 170, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 91, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 83, in sendmail_direct IOError: Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',) Retrying in 1 seconds... Sending failed... Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 116, in run File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 170, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 91, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 83, in sendmail_direct IOError: Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',) ---------------------------------------- I don't begin to understand why this is happening, especially when it WAS working just fine. I've checked my firewall and security settings, and it seems like those aren't blocking this. I don't get it. I also upgraded to the latest version of Calibre and that didn't resolve this issue, either. Any ideas on why this is happening? |
12-30-2010, 10:52 PM | #2 |
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amazon has stopped accepting mails sent directly from your computer. setup and use an SMTP relay like gmail (click the use gmail button in the email preferences in calibre)
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12-31-2010, 02:02 PM | #3 |
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Wow, I had no idea that change occurred. Thank you so much. I'll try that next.
Oh - now I see how this works... just the same. Got it set up and the free news sources are now showing up on my Kindle as usual. Fabulous. :-) Thanks again! Love Calibre. Such a fantastic tool. Changes everything with my Kindle. I really appreciate your efforts. :-) Last edited by skaiser; 12-31-2010 at 02:27 PM. Reason: update info, removed questions deemed unnecessary LOL |
12-31-2010, 02:17 PM | #4 |
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no, it means you use the gmail mail server to send the mails for you, which happens automatically.
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