Quote:
Originally Posted by dondford
Charles:
Thank you for your reply; the email to my Kindle just stopped working all of a sudden. It was working before and I haven't changed email servers. My email server is bellsouth; does Calibre use my email server or its own server? This is all very confushing!
D
|
Calibre is an email client. It introduces new messages into the network.
Email clients always deliver mail to email servers. You can use direct delivery, or you can relay. Direct delivery happens when the originating client contacts the destination's server. Relaying happens when the originating client contacts some other server, which then (possibly indirectly) passes the mail to the destination server.
You say that your configuration is just like dwanthny's. That means that you are using a relay. To use a relay successfully, several things must be true.
- You must know the internet name of the mail server.
- The relay must accept encrypted connections (TLS or SSL). This usually means that you must use ports 587 (TLS) or 465 (SSL).
- Your user name must be accepted by the mail server.
- Your password must be accepted by the mail server.
- Your computer must permit calibre to make internet connections on the specified port (windows firewall exceptions).
- Your internet connection must work.
If all of these are true, then an email test (push the test button) will succeed. If any are not true, then the test will not succeed. Thus, we are left with the question that dwanthny asked you -- what happens when you push the test email button?