Cal sends mails without attachments

Hschwickart · 02-22-2022, 01:50 PM

Tried to send about 10 books with Calibres mail feature to pbsync. Some were accepted, some were rejected due to missing attachment of the book.

kovidgoyal · 02-22-2022, 10:11 PM

calibre does not ever send mails without attachments. This will be a bug in pbsync. Send them to your normal email address instead to confirm. Most likely it will be because those books have non-english title/authors and the pbsync service cant deal with unicode filenames for attachements. If you run up-to-date clibre it detects mails sent to @pbsync.com and uses ascii filenames for them automatically.

Hschwickart · 02-23-2022, 04:26 AM

Thanks, I will contact PB-support.
That would explain the random appearence of the phenomenon.

Hschwickart · 05-28-2022, 04:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

calibre does not ever send mails without attachments. This will be a bug in pbsync. Send them to your normal email address instead to confirm. Most likely it will be because those books have non-english title/authors and the pbsync service cant deal with unicode filenames for attachements. If you run up-to-date clibre it detects mails sent to @pbsync.com and uses ascii filenames for them automatically.

Pocket book has confirmed that the problem is caused by the filenames, they don't allow commas.
Whereas Windows allows nearly all filenames, be they strange as you can think, as an old IT professional I always try to avoid them. As we are having two Pocket Books I was using Calibres mailing capabilities which is preventing from connecting the devices to Windows.
The strange filenames sometimes created by Calibre however hinder me to use that useful function as about one third of the books is not accepted.Therefore I am sending the manually prr mail with handchanged filenames.
Is there no plugin available to overcome this situation?

DNSB · 05-28-2022, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hschwickart

Pocket book has confirmed that the problem is caused by the filenames, they don't allow commas.
Whereas Windows allows nearly all filenames, be they strange as you can think, as an old IT professional I always try to avoid them. As we are having two Pocket Books I was using Calibres mailing capabilities which is preventing from connecting the devices to Windows.
The strange filenames sometimes created by Calibre however hinder me to use that useful function as about one third of the books is not accepted.Therefore I am sending the manually prr mail with handchanged filenames.
Is there no plugin available to overcome this situation?

What version of calibre are you running?

As Kovid mentioned in his response to you back in February, 2022, if you are running an up to date version of calibre, it will automagically sanitize filenames when sending to @pbsync.com email addresses.

kovidgoyal · 05-29-2022, 03:20 AM

I have added removal of commas from attachement file names as well for @pbsync.com addresses.

Hschwickart · 05-29-2022, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I have added removal of commas from attachement file names as well for @pbsync.com addresses.

Great, thanks a lot

Hschwickart · 05-29-2022, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I have added removal of commas from attachement file names as well for @pbsync.com addresses.

What Version would that be?

PeterT · 05-29-2022, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hschwickart

What Version would that be?

Probably the next version 5.44.0; the change was only just added to calibre and 5.43.0 was released 2 days ago.

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Hschwickart · 06-03-2022, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT

Probably the next version 5.44.0; the change was only just added to calibre and 5.43.0 was released 2 days ago.

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02-22-2022, 01:50 PM	#1
Hschwickart Calibre Fan Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2020 Location: Germany Device: Pocket Book Touch Lux 5	Cal sends mails without attachments Tried to send about 10 books with Calibres mail feature to pbsync. Some were accepted, some were rejected due to missing attachment of the book.

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02-22-2022, 10:11 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre does not ever send mails without attachments. This will be a bug in pbsync. Send them to your normal email address instead to confirm. Most likely it will be because those books have non-english title/authors and the pbsync service cant deal with unicode filenames for attachements. If you run up-to-date clibre it detects mails sent to @pbsync.com and uses ascii filenames for them automatically.

02-23-2022, 04:26 AM	#3
Hschwickart Calibre Fan Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2020 Location: Germany Device: Pocket Book Touch Lux 5	Thanks, I will contact PB-support. That would explain the random appearence of the phenomenon.

05-29-2022, 03:20 AM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I have added removal of commas from attachement file names as well for @pbsync.com addresses.