Sending books via Email via "Connect/share"

mlambertson · 02-27-2026, 09:02 AM

New user here - one of my first actions in Calibre was to try to email a book via the "Connect/share" button. This popped up a panel for a new email address. I tried populating this with the information of one of my Kindle addresses.
The attempt to send the book failed - I don't recall the particular error.
At that point, I wanted to go back into that panel and try editing the information but going through the "Connect/share" button would not provide a means to edit it.
I finally found that going to "Preferences"->"Sharing"->"Sharing books by email" gets me to that panel where the email server info is displayed. I have not tried updating this yet but just wanted to put this out here in case anyone else is consequently having similar issues getting to the server info.

DNSB · 02-27-2026, 04:18 PM

If you used GMX as the sender, did you configure your GMX account to allow POP/IMAP?

mlambertson · Yesterday, 09:10 PM

Thanks for the reply. I did not try GMX but understand now that is what I should have tried. For now, I will probably just stick with sending via my main email independently of Calibre.

dunhill · Yesterday, 11:04 PM

Due to a problem, Hotmail and Gmail protocols are not working.

02-27-2026, 09:02 AM	#1
mlambertson Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2026 Device: Kindle	Sending books via Email via "Connect/share" New user here - one of my first actions in Calibre was to try to email a book via the "Connect/share" button. This popped up a panel for a new email address. I tried populating this with the information of one of my Kindle addresses. The attempt to send the book failed - I don't recall the particular error. At that point, I wanted to go back into that panel and try editing the information but going through the "Connect/share" button would not provide a means to edit it. I finally found that going to "Preferences"->"Sharing"->"Sharing books by email" gets me to that panel where the email server info is displayed. I have not tried updating this yet but just wanted to put this out here in case anyone else is consequently having similar issues getting to the server info.

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02-27-2026, 04:18 PM	#2
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 50,657 Karma: 178402706 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	If you used GMX as the sender, did you configure your GMX account to allow POP/IMAP?

Yesterday, 09:10 PM	#3
mlambertson Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2026 Device: Kindle	Thanks for the reply. I did not try GMX but understand now that is what I should have tried. For now, I will probably just stick with sending via my main email independently of Calibre.

Yesterday, 11:04 PM	#4
dunhill Wizard Posts: 1,025 Karma: 1084520 Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Device: moon+ reader, kindle paperwhite	Due to a problem, Hotmail and Gmail protocols are not working.