Epub -> Mobi -> Mail with commandline

[Mr.Walkman]

Hi there,

I'm trying to use the Automator in Mac to do a oneclick solution for converting a epub-file to mobi and then send this file by mail to my kindle.

I got the conversion working with this bash-skript:

while read LINE
do
	/usr/bin/ebook-convert "$LINE" "$LINE.mobi" --output-profile kindle_pw
done

I tried to include calibre-smtp but the script always failes. How can i hand over the converted file to calibre-smtp in the same command?

calibre-smpt -a "$LINE.mobi" -u... -p... and so on isn't working.

Thanks for your help!

[Mr.Walkman]

okay I got it working. for everyone who also want's to give this a try here is the code:

while read LINE
do
	/usr/bin/ebook-convert "$LINE" "${LINE/.*/}.mobi"
	/usr/bin/calibre-smtp from@mail.com to@mail.com "sender_name" -r senders_smtp_server -u username -a "${LINE/.*/}.mobi" -p password -e TLS --port 587
rm "${LINE/.epub/}.mobi"
done

This does: convert any file to mobi, sends this file to the kindle and then delete the mobi file again.

replace:

from@mail.com with your personal email
to@mail.com with your kindle email
sender_name with the name you want the mail send to be from (also can leave it empty)
senders_smtp_server with your outgoing smtp server (just google it)
username with your email username
password with your password
TLS either TLS or SSL depends on your providers smpt (just google it)
587 with your providers smtp port (just google it)

just start automator, do a new application add a shell-command field, paste the code, alter it and save the application. drag and drop your file onto the application and the rest will just work

[ickam]

Originally Posted by Mr.Walkman

okay I got it working. for everyone who also want's to give this a try here is the code:

while read LINE
do
	/usr/bin/ebook-convert "$LINE" "${LINE/.*/}.mobi"
	/usr/bin/calibre-smtp from@mail.com to@mail.com "sender_name" -r senders_smtp_server -u username -a "${LINE/.*/}.mobi" -p password -e TLS --port 587
rm "${LINE/.epub/}.mobi"
done

This does: convert any file to mobi, sends this file to the kindle and then delete the mobi file again.

Sorry for replying in an old thread, but is there a way to alter this comment so that it outputs what it is actually doing? I had been using another command thus far, which is

 find . -name '*.epub' -type f -exec bash -c 'ebook-convert "$0" "${0%.epub}.mobi" --prefer-author-sort --output-profile=kindle --linearize-tables --smarten-punctuation --enable-heuristics' {} \;

which works very nicely and outputs steps as well as progress, but I don't know how to automatize the email sending portion.

[JSWolf]

@ickam, what is it about your ePub that you feel the need to enable heuristics?

[ickam]

@JSWolf I was under the impression that heurestics improves line break handling.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ickam

@JSWolf I was under the impression that heurestics improves line break handling.

If the ePub is converted from PDF maybe. But otherwise, there's no reason and all it does is slow down the conversion.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by ickam

@JSWolf I was under the impression that heurestics improves line break handling.

Yep. IF the input was a mess (PDF conversion or OCR).
IMHO it can introduce other flaws AND it adds to the time it takes to convert.

[ickam]

Gentlemen, please focus on the emailing part of my question

[kovidgoyal]

Make a script that does the conversion and emailling for the passed in filename. Then call it via find.