Sharing books by email

[Krishnam Prabhu]

In "calibre - E-book management" while sending a book the following error shows:

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calibre, version 3.40.1 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Failed to email book: Failed: Email MyBook to xxxxx@gmail.com

Starting job: Email MyBook to xxxxx@gmail.com
connect: (u'smtp.live.com', 587)
connect: (u'smtp.live.com', 587)

Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 44, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 134, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 148, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 336, in connect
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 310, in _get_socket
File "socket.py", line 557, in create_connection
gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed


Retrying in 301 seconds...

Waiting 301 seconds before sending, to avoid being marked as spam.
You can control this delay via Preferences->Tweaks
connect: (u'smtp.live.com', 587)
connect: (u'smtp.live.com', 587)

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Please help me to get a solution ASAP.

Regards,
A. Krishnam Prabhu,
India.

[pdurrant]

I'm not sure why, when the email address is <user>@gmail.com, your smtp server is set to smtp.live.com.

However, the error looks to me like the DNS lookup for 'smtp.live.com' is failing. But I might be wrong about what that getaddrinfo call is doing, as I haven't checked the source.

Someone more knowledgeable will no doubt be along shortly.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm not sure why, when the email address is <user>@gmail.com, your smtp server is set to smtp.live.com.

The gmail address is presumably the email address of the person he wants to “share” the book with, as per the thread title.

I should point out that “sharing” books is copyright infringement, unless of course the book concerned is in the public domain.

[kovidgoyal]

yeah its a dns lookup that's failing. Typical causes are lack of network connection or antivirus/firewall blocking calibre

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

yeah its a dns lookup that's failing. Typical causes are lack of network connection or antivirus/firewall blocking calibre

The Firewall is what made it impossible for me to send directly from Calibre. Instead, I have to save the ebook to disk and attach it to an email to send-to-kindle. Since I don't do this often, it's not much of an issue. I acknowledge your second comment Harry, but since I am emailing to place in my cloud, I am not bypassing the copyright, just thwarting the 'license' issue as I bought it elsewhere.