02-01-2011, 11:34 AM | #1 |
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Trouble emailing to Kindle
I am having trouble emailing to my Kindle. When I "Test Email" with my work email, i get the following error log:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\wizard\send_email.py", line 114, in test_email_settings File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 91, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 64, in sendmail_direct File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 56, in get_mx File "site-packages\dnspython-1.9.1-py2.7.egg\dns\resolver.py", line 733, in query File "site-packages\dnspython-1.9.1-py2.7.egg\dns\resolver.py", line 663, in query File "site-packages\dnspython-1.9.1-py2.7.egg\dns\resolver.py", line 541, in _compute_timeout Timeout Log: Find mail exchanger for free.kindle.com When I use "Test email" with my Gmail account, I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\wizard\send_email.py", line 114, in test_email_settings File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 103, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 303, in connect File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 777, in _get_socket File "socket.py", line 567, 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 because connected host has failed to respond Log: Any advice? |
02-01-2011, 11:54 AM | #2 |
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The first event is a DNS timeout. I don't know how your computer is set up to reach your work email, but it says it can't reach a name server to look up the address of the server it needs. Is your work email server only reachable via an internal server? Can you normally access it from whereever you did the test?
The second error tells you that there was no response from the GMail server. That could have many reasons... Are you using the correct port (Did you configure it by clicking the big, friendly GMail button in the email preferences)? Is this a recurring error? If you have only tried it once, try it again, maybe the server is busy, or your connection unstable, or what have you. |
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02-01-2011, 01:10 PM | #3 |
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I am actually at work and on our network. So, I don't know why it can't connect. I redid the Gmail set up using the big Use Gmai button. Here is the result of the test: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\wizard\send_email.py", line 114, in test_email_settings File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 103, in sendmail File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 303, in connect File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 281, in _get_socket File "socket.py", line 567, in create_connection error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it Log: |
02-01-2011, 03:22 PM | #4 |
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That error is most often because of an intervening firewall. Something is blocking the connection between your computer and the GMail server. If you have a firewall running on your computer, you'll need to either disable it or, better, add an exception for Calibre. Same goes for an external firewall, though that might be more difficult if you're at work.
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02-01-2011, 05:15 PM | #5 |
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Thanks again, but I already added and exception for Calibre. I am now at home and tried it again. No luck
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02-01-2011, 05:36 PM | #6 |
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Okay, because we're seeing many help requests concerning this, I just went ahead and tested it using the configuration Calibre generated by pressing the big, helpful GMail button from a machine I know can send GMail via SMTP (I use it in Thunderbird). No problems.
If your configuration is correct otherwise, which is likely if you used said GMail button on the configuration page, there's something preventing Calibre from reaching the GMail server. Most probably it's a firewall of some sort. If you have configured your PC's firewall to allow Calibre access, there's still the possibility that your router, for whatever reasons, block SMTP to GMail servers (can you send mail via GMail from, say, Thunderbird or Outlook?). The last possibility is that your ISP prevents SMTP servers other than its own from being reached, which is not totally unheard of, though still incredibly rude, if you ask me. It would help, for further troubleshooting, if you'd confirm that your settings are correct. (The working settings for me are smtp.gmail.com on port 587, TLS enabled. Your username should include the @gmail.com or @googlemail.com, though you'd get a different error if that was the problem.) Last edited by Manichean; 02-01-2011 at 05:38 PM. |
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I solved it (I hope). On another thread someone suggested changing the Gmail connection to use port 465 and SSL. When I made that change everything seemed to work fine. If you can explain why, I'd appreciate it!
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02-01-2011, 05:43 PM | #8 |
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Well, I would guess that port 587 is blocked, then. Which would be no fault of the GMail servers, but still a problem somewhere in between. 465 seems to not be blocked.
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02-01-2011, 05:47 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for the help.
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