Email Failure

kelliepoodle · 07-23-2014, 02:30 PM

I can't find a forum that deals with this, but I believe this one is the closest in subject.

I'm a long-time user (and contributor) to Calibre. Ordinarily, I download books to a file on my desktop then move them to Calibre where I have no problem sending them to my ancient Nook, my Samsung Tablet or even a little $50 WiFi tablet I bought my DH to use as a reader. I keep the original files.

I recently changed computers, and although I backed up everything, several books have disappeared from the original file but are still in Calibre. I want to send them to a friend via email.

I set up the email program in Calibre with my gmail account, but the emails, including the test, fail. I can't get back into the wizard screen to try to see if I messed anything up there.

I did use the "Help" feature and printed out a huge list of commands, but I'm not a programmer, have forgotten everything I ever knew about DOS and have not even found the proper area to enter the code.

This Deep South Texas Grandma could sure use some help.

TIA

theducks · 07-23-2014, 04:51 PM

Preferences: Sharing by email to change or add settings.

Firewalls are the usual culprits. You need to tell it that calibre.exe is allowed to send stuff.

Maybe there is a typo in your mail account info

(if you had copied your calibre settings folder from your old system, these should still be good)

kelliepoodle · 07-23-2014, 05:08 PM

Thank you for offering assistance.

I did not have email set up on my last computer. Everything came over beautifully.

I did find the way to check the settings and my gmail address is spelled correctly. Perhaps my confusion lies in the two boxes: one says email name and the other has "@gmail.com" already typed in. I tried using it by leaving the second box as is and only putting the first part of my address without the @gmail.com in the first box.

That did not work, so I added the full address to each box and that did not work, either.

Perhaps if I try again and copy the failure response, that would help troubleshoot?

I will try to do that later today.

Thank you again. Your assistance means a lot to me.

PeterT · 07-23-2014, 06:39 PM

My settings for eMail are:

Code:

Send eMail from: <my name>@gmail.com
Mail Server
Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587
Password: <my gmail password>
Encyption: TLS

Never had any issues with those.

kelliepoodle · 07-24-2014, 01:54 PM

I did finally get it working. The test feature for an email does not work, however I was able to finally send books.

Thanks all for your help.

07-23-2014, 02:30 PM	#1
kelliepoodle Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Nook	Email Failure I can't find a forum that deals with this, but I believe this one is the closest in subject. I'm a long-time user (and contributor) to Calibre. Ordinarily, I download books to a file on my desktop then move them to Calibre where I have no problem sending them to my ancient Nook, my Samsung Tablet or even a little $50 WiFi tablet I bought my DH to use as a reader. I keep the original files. I recently changed computers, and although I backed up everything, several books have disappeared from the original file but are still in Calibre. I want to send them to a friend via email. I set up the email program in Calibre with my gmail account, but the emails, including the test, fail. I can't get back into the wizard screen to try to see if I messed anything up there. I did use the "Help" feature and printed out a huge list of commands, but I'm not a programmer, have forgotten everything I ever knew about DOS and have not even found the proper area to enter the code. This Deep South Texas Grandma could sure use some help. TIA

07-23-2014, 06:39 PM	#4
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,271 Karma: 78869092 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	My settings for eMail are: Code: Send eMail from: <my name>@gmail.com Mail Server Host Name: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587 Password: <my gmail password> Encyption: TLS Never had any issues with those.

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07-23-2014, 04:51 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,884 Karma: 59840450 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Preferences: Sharing by email to change or add settings. Firewalls are the usual culprits. You need to tell it that calibre.exe is allowed to send stuff. Maybe there is a typo in your mail account info (if you had copied your calibre settings folder from your old system, these should still be good)

07-23-2014, 05:08 PM	#3
kelliepoodle Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Nook	Thank you for offering assistance. I did not have email set up on my last computer. Everything came over beautifully. I did find the way to check the settings and my gmail address is spelled correctly. Perhaps my confusion lies in the two boxes: one says email name and the other has "@gmail.com" already typed in. I tried using it by leaving the second box as is and only putting the first part of my address without the @gmail.com in the first box. That did not work, so I added the full address to each box and that did not work, either. Perhaps if I try again and copy the failure response, that would help troubleshoot? I will try to do that later today. Thank you again. Your assistance means a lot to me.

07-24-2014, 01:54 PM	#5
kelliepoodle Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Nook	I did finally get it working. The test feature for an email does not work, however I was able to finally send books. Thanks all for your help.

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