Email to Kindle not working

[djkoble]

Hi all,
I know this is a common problem but I can't get Calibre to email a book to my Kindle.
I am running 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium and am running Norton Security Suite. I have checked the Norton firewall and made sure calibre is allowed access through the firewall. My email provider is Comcast.
I have checked my Kindle account on Amazon and allowed my email address as an allowed email address.

The error message I get from Calibre is as follows:

calibre, version 0.8.59
ERROR: Failed to email book: <b>Failed</b>: Email The Blade Itself to xxxxxx@kindle.com

Starting job: Email The Blade Itself to xxxxxx@kindle.com

Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 37, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 112, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 93, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 85, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',)


Retrying in 1 seconds...


Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 37, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 112, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 93, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 85, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',)

Job: "Email The Blade Itself to xxxxxx@kindle.com" failed with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\threaded_jobs.py", line 83, in start_work
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 92, in __call__
IOError: Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',)

Called with args: (u'C:\\Users\\Yyyyy\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre _0.8.59_tmp_xlnlhf\\rnscldcaltmpfmt.mobi', u'The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie.mobi', u'xxxxx@kindle.com', u'E-book: The Blade Itself', u'Attached, you will find the e-book\n\nThe Blade Itself\n\tby Joe Abercrombie\n\nin the MOBI format.') {u'notifications': <Queue.Queue instance at 0x0951DF58>, u'abort': <threading._Event object at 0x094F5630>, u'log': <calibre.utils.logging.GUILog object at 0x094F5830>}

Any help anyone could give me would be appreciated as I currently have to manually connect my Kindle to the computer via a USB connection which is inconvenient.
Thanks,
-Dennis

[kovidgoyal]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....ails-using-app

[djkoble]

That did the trick. I was just hesitant to open yet another email account but it did do the trick.
It has turned out to not be quite as convenient as hoped however since even though the email works you apparently still have to then go to Manage your Kindle on Amazon's website and then tell Amazon that you want the title sent to your particular Kindle.
I couldn't find any obvious way to bypass this additional step. If there is a way I'd love to hear about it. Calibre is so useful in so many ways btw. Great job!
Thanks again,
-Dennis