Email to @kindle.com failed

[gertblij]

Hi,

I posted this before, but in the wrong forum. Hope this is the right one.

Where for years I was able to send books to my @kindle email address and then wifi them to my Kindle, this stopped a few months ago.

I use my gmail account in the Calibre Preferences setup. When I sent from gmail to my @kindle.com account it works fine, but when I send from Calibre I get the error log as below.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

TIA
Gert

Starting job: Email The Economist to someone@kindle.com

Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 43, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 130, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 116, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 108, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')


Retrying in 1 seconds...

Waiting 1 seconds before sending, to avoid being marked as spam.
You can control this delay via Preferences->Tweaks

Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 43, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 130, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 116, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 108, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')

Job: "Email The Economist to someone@kindle.com" failed with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\threaded_jobs.py", line 83, in start_work
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 98, in __call__
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')

Called with args: (u'C:\\Users\\someone\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calib re_yriiqw\\wfsklocaltmpfmt.mobi', u'The Economist - calibre.mobi', u'someone@kindle.com', u'E-book: The Economist', u'Attached, you will find the e-book\n\nThe Economist\n\tby calibre\n\nin the MOBI format.') {u'log': <calibre.utils.logging.GUILog object at 0x000000000AE84860>, u'abort': <threading._Event object at 0x000000000AE84128>, u'notifications': <Queue.Queue instance at 0x0000000009219D08>}

[theducks]

Once again, you have posted, in not precisely the wrong place, just not
the best one.

Please take time to review ALL forum (and sub-forum descriptions in sections that have them) before posting. If you (think you) have posted in the wrong place, PM a MOD to move it... DO NOT splatter post.

Moderator Notice
Moved

PS
You just posted your Kindle address to the World

[kovidgoyal]

According to that log you are not using gmail in your calibre setup. Follow the instructions here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....-using-calibre

[shalym]

Originally Posted by theducks

Once again, you have posted, in not precisely the wrong place, just not
the best one.

Please take time to review ALL forum (and sub-forum descriptions in sections that have them) before posting. If you (think you) have posted in the wrong place, PM a MOD to move it... DO NOT splatter post.


Moved

PS
You just posted your Kindle address to the World

With regards to your PS, posting the email address of his Kindle, while not necessarily the best idea, can't really hurt anything. Amazon will reject any mail that is sent to that address unless the sending email address is explicitly added to the Amazon account as an allowed sender.

Shari

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by shalym

With regards to your PS, posting the email address of his Kindle, while not necessarily the best idea, can't really hurt anything. Amazon will reject any mail that is sent to that address unless the sending email address is explicitly added to the Amazon account as an allowed sender.

Shari

Maybe - seeing an email address in a forum post might trigger a webcrawler bot to send a link to the post to the bot's home.

Given the kindle account name and the mobileread login name are identical and the OP has a gmail account it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume his/her gmail account uses the same name - result - emails in the OPs gmail account from noreply#salessupport.The Economist.com

Who would bother with doing that. Boiler-room operators.

BR

[gertblij]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

According to that log you are not using gmail in your calibre setup. Follow the instructions here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....-using-calibre

Thanks Govid, that solved it