calibre 0.5.3 supports emailing books to the Kindle

[Leep]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

try the different encrption options TLS and SSL Also try the two ports 25 and 587

heres the error for ssl and ports 25 or 587
Failed to email the following books:
The ice limit
(1, '_ssl.c:480: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\device.pyo", line 389, in _send_mails
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 89, in sendmail
File "smtplib.pyo", line 295, in connect
File "smtplib.pyo", line 755, in _get_socket
File "ssl.pyo", line 350, in wrap_socket
File "ssl.pyo", line 118, in __init__
File "ssl.pyo", line 293, in do_handshake
SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:480: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

and the error for TLS and port 587
Failed to email the following books:
The ice limit
(535, '5.0.0 Authentication Failed')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\device.pyo", line 389, in _send_mails
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 94, in sendmail
File "smtplib.pyo", line 589, in login
SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, '5.0.0 Authentication Failed')

[kovidgoyal]

And you're sure your username/password is correct (click the show password check box).

[Leep]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And you're sure your username/password is correct (click the show password check box).

Have tried two different accounts - (both smtps work from my iTouch for sending mail)and have checked passwords. Have also tried to send to two different Kindles both of which are set to received email from me.

Not sure what else to try. Not a huge problem for me as the rest of Calibre is working well, except for minor metadata burps.

cheers

[kovidgoyal]

To debug further, I'm going to need the log from calibre talking to the server, which you can generate from the command line

calibre-smtp -r smtp.live.com -u username -p password --port 587 -vv your_msn_email_address to_address "test email"

[Sydney's Mom]

I tried :

calibre-smtp -vv from@whatever.com to@somethingelse.com "test email"

and I got:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Debra>calibre-smtp -vv myemail@mydomain.com kindleemail@kindle.co
m "test email"
connect: ('smtp-fw-2101.amazon.com.', 25)
connect: (25, 'smtp-fw-2101.amazon.com.')
connect: ('smtp-fw-9101.amazon.com.', 25)
connect: (25, 'smtp-fw-9101.amazon.com.')
connect: ('smtp-fw-4101.amazon.com.', 25)
connect: (25, 'smtp-fw-4101.amazon.com.')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "smtp.py", line 65, in sendmail_direct
File "smtplib.pyo", line 295, in connect
File "smtplib.pyo", line 273, in _get_socket
File "socket.pyo", line 512, in create_connection
error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did
not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed b
ecause connected host has failed to respond

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "smtp.py", line 238, in <module>
File "smtp.py", line 215, in main
File "smtp.py", line 80, in sendmail
File "smtp.py", line 72, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because
the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or establis
hed connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')

Preferences is set to reflect my email address as from, and my kindle email as to.

Does anything wrong stand out? thanks, Debra

[kovidgoyal]

I suggest waiting for the next release. It will have a "Test" button that will make debugging email problems a little easier for me.

[Sydney's Mom]

Thank you very much. I love the way it tries to email the Chicago Trib as soon as it downloads it. Cool feature! Debra

[Gideon]

Can't wait. Getting this error myself (if it helps any):


er... lost the paste. Anyway, was getting timeout error.

[Sydney's Mom]

I always like to know it is just not me! Thanks

[rbondi]

Here's what worked for me on Mac Calibre 0.7.23 for Gmail:
- Command-, for preferences
- Click Share by Email
- hostname: smtp.gmail.com
- port: 465
- username: (enter your gmail user name)
- password: (enter your gmail password)
- Encryption: SSL

Ciicking "Test email" did nothing for me, but to email any item in library:
- click on it
- Click on Contact/Share tab down arrow, select Email to...

Hope this helps others,
/rb

[CyberEngel]

I've been trying to get Calibre to email my Kindle off and on for a while now. Whenever I have Calibre send directly I get an error "No mail server found for address: ..." regardless of what address I use:

paul@paul-laptop:~$ calibre-smtp -vv paul@my-domain paul@my-domain "Calibre Test"
Find mail exchanger for my-domain
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 48, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/utils/smtp.py", line 220, in main
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/utils/smtp.py", line 83, in sendmail
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/utils/smtp.py", line 64, in sendmail_direct
ValueError: No mail server found for address: paul@my-domain

I've tested using the mail command and it works fine. I cannot relay through my mail server since it doesn't support TLS or SSL and I don't want to setup a Gmail account just for this. Any ideas?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by CyberEngel

I cannot relay through my mail server since it doesn't support TLS or SSL and I don't want to setup a Gmail account just for this. Any ideas?

This problem has been extensively discussed in other threads like this one. Short answer is that calibre supports only encrypting mail servers. You need to somehow give it one.

[CyberEngel]

Originally Posted by chaley

This problem has been extensively discussed in other threads like this one. Short answer is that calibre supports only encrypting mail servers. You need to somehow give it one.

That would make sense when sending email to my personal mail server, but not when I try emailing Kindle where I get the same message.

Besides, the error message doesn't mention encryption but a name resolution error. Why can't calibre resolve the mail servers when other mail clients don't have that problem?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by CyberEngel

Besides, the error message doesn't mention encryption but a name resolution error. Why can't calibre resolve the mail servers when other mail clients don't have that problem?

It says that there isn't a valid mail server at that address (connection refused or protocol error). It doesn't say that nothing answers (name error).

A valid mail server for calibre will support either TLS or SSL. Do you know that the server you are contacting does that, i.e., have you tried it? If so, with what client and on what port? Many many servers do not accept switching to encryption, but some will accept connecting to an encrypting server at some port other than 25.

And do you you know that the mail server you are contacting will accept to be a relay?

[CyberEngel]

Originally Posted by chaley

It says that there isn't a valid mail server at that address (connection refused or protocol error). It doesn't say that nothing answers (name error).

A valid mail server for calibre will support either TLS or SSL. Do you know that the server you are contacting does that, i.e., have you tried it? If so, with what client and on what port? Many many servers do not accept switching to encryption, but some will accept connecting to an encrypting server at some port other than 25.

And do you you know that the mail server you are contacting will accept to be a relay?

Does calibre support emailing to kindle? I've tried both kindle.com & free.kindle.com (which is the one I'd prefer to use).