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seacity1 · 06-17-2015, 05:42 PM

My hard drive had to be replaced & reinstalled Calibre 2.30 on a system running Windows 8.1. Am using Avast free antivirus & Windows Firewall.
In the Send From line I have entered my gmail address. Can't send email to any address, including my own. Get this error

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')

Tried to run the Test but as soon as I do so get a "Test Not Responding" & only option is to close Calibre or wait. Waiting does nothing. Tried this several times using different test addresses but still "freezes."

I currently have my gmail account set to allow access to less secure sites. I can email books from Gmail itself but not from Calibre.

This function always worked before so not sure what's wrong. Before this happened was using McAfee's Firewall & never had a problem. Do not want to reinstall this program as it slows computer to a crawl. Seems like there use to be a use Gmail option but now only option is use Hotmail or GMX.

Not sure what to try next.

06-17-2015, 05:42 PM	#5
seacity1 Zealot Posts: 139 Karma: 84296 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Florida Device: Samsung Galaxy 10.1 2014 Edition,Nook HD+, Nook Color, Nook ST & Ipad3	Can't send email from Calibre 2.30 My hard drive had to be replaced & reinstalled Calibre 2.30 on a system running Windows 8.1. Am using Avast free antivirus & Windows Firewall. In the Send From line I have entered my gmail address. Can't send email to any address, including my own. Get this error 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') Tried to run the Test but as soon as I do so get a "Test Not Responding" & only option is to close Calibre or wait. Waiting does nothing. Tried this several times using different test addresses but still "freezes." I currently have my gmail account set to allow access to less secure sites. I can email books from Gmail itself but not from Calibre. This function always worked before so not sure what's wrong. Before this happened was using McAfee's Firewall & never had a problem. Do not want to reinstall this program as it slows computer to a crawl. Seems like there use to be a use Gmail option but now only option is use Hotmail or GMX. Not sure what to try next. Last edited by seacity1; 06-17-2015 at 06:05 PM.