Strange email problem

Giggleton · 01-13-2011, 10:38 PM

Greetings,

Thank you so much for making Calibre, it has already helped me a lot. My problem concerns the sending of multiple books to my reading device. Calibre will send the first book fine, but then subsequent emails will timeout. The weirder things is that any attempt to send another email will timeout as well. I have to close Calibre and reopen to send another book to my email.

Is this a known issue? I'm using the Kindle3 and sending emails to me@free.kindle.com

I can attach a number of books to a single email and send that to myself using web based gmail, and then my Kindle3 will download those one at a time.

It might not even be worth bothering about since Calibre only takes a second or so to restart, and then I send myself another book, but having the option to send a bulk email would be nice, determining why sequential emails aren't working would be good too.

kovidgoyal · 01-13-2011, 10:47 PM

whats the exact error message you get? Note that calibre waits 5 minutes between consecutive mails when using gmail.

Giggleton · 01-14-2011, 03:49 PM

Well, this wasn't a problem at all I see. I just wasn't aware that Calibre waited 5 minutes before sending another email, I thought something was timing out.

kovidgoyal · 01-14-2011, 06:43 PM

Yes, the wait is to prevent anti span controls in gmail from kicking in.

pilotbob · 03-05-2011, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes, the wait is to prevent anti span controls in gmail from kicking in.

Thanks for this thread. I was having the same issue.

Can all the ebooks you select not be attached to a single email?

BOb

user_none · 03-05-2011, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Can all the ebooks you select not be attached to a single email?

Size limitations of attachments makes this difficult. Especially since providers put arbitrary restrictions on the total file size.

pilotbob · 03-05-2011, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

Size limitations of attachments makes this difficult. Especially since providers put arbitrary restrictions on the total file size.

Ok, but it was said this behavior is specific to Gmail... so can't it know the specific attachment limits with gmail and limit the number of emails sent by maximizing the attachment size?

BOb

user_none · 03-05-2011, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Ok, but it was said this behavior is specific to Gmail... so can't it know the specific attachment limits with gmail and limit the number of emails sent by maximizing the attachment size?

I'm not 100% sure if the delay is specific to Gmail or was implemented for all provides because of Gmail. We could check every provider and have a list of attachment sizes but I don't see much benefit. Also, I don't know if Amazon accepts multiple attachments when emailing an ebook to a Kindle.

pilotbob · 03-05-2011, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

I'm not 100% sure if the delay is specific to Gmail or was implemented for all provides because of Gmail. We could check every provider and have a list of attachment sizes but I don't see much benefit. Also, I don't know if Amazon accepts multiple attachments when emailing an ebook to a Kindle.

Yep, was just an idea... not worries. I think you can do multiple attachments, see OPs message.

I haven't worked with Calibre in a long time and it has come a long was since I last used it.

BOb

kovidgoyal · 03-05-2011, 03:53 PM

The delay is specific to gmail and hotmail.

loximuthal · 03-06-2011, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

I don't know if Amazon accepts multiple attachments when emailing an ebook to a Kindle.

They do. I have sent several files to my Kindle in a single email, and they all got delivered.

01-13-2011, 10:38 PM	#1
Giggleton Banned Posts: 1,687 Karma: 4368191 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Oregon Device: Kindle3	Strange email problem Greetings, Thank you so much for making Calibre, it has already helped me a lot. My problem concerns the sending of multiple books to my reading device. Calibre will send the first book fine, but then subsequent emails will timeout. The weirder things is that any attempt to send another email will timeout as well. I have to close Calibre and reopen to send another book to my email. Is this a known issue? I'm using the Kindle3 and sending emails to me@free.kindle.com I can attach a number of books to a single email and send that to myself using web based gmail, and then my Kindle3 will download those one at a time. It might not even be worth bothering about since Calibre only takes a second or so to restart, and then I send myself another book, but having the option to send a bulk email would be nice, determining why sequential emails aren't working would be good too.

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01-13-2011, 10:47 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	whats the exact error message you get? Note that calibre waits 5 minutes between consecutive mails when using gmail.

01-14-2011, 03:49 PM	#3
Giggleton Banned Posts: 1,687 Karma: 4368191 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Oregon Device: Kindle3	Well, this wasn't a problem at all I see. I just wasn't aware that Calibre waited 5 minutes before sending another email, I thought something was timing out.

01-14-2011, 06:43 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Yes, the wait is to prevent anti span controls in gmail from kicking in.

03-05-2011, 03:53 PM	#10
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,863 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The delay is specific to gmail and hotmail.

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