Automatic email gets rejected

Genmutant · 10-24-2010, 04:25 AM

Hi!
I didn't know where I should post this, as it isn't a specific Calibre nor Kindle problem.
I use the automatic News-Download for Süddeutsche, xkcd, Dilbert and Heise.
All of them work fine with the automatic email to my Kindle 3, except Süddeutsche. This doesn't get delivered, although it looks like it gets converted without a problem

Amazon sends me this email:

Quote:

Dear Customer,
Your message to XXX@free.kindle.com, sent at 08:17 AM on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 GMT did not include any attached documents or image files.
The Kindle Personal Document Service can convert and deliver the following types of documents:
Microsoft Word (.doc)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
HTML (.htm, .html)
Text (.txt) documents
Archived documents (zip , x-zip) and compressed archived documents
Mobi book
Images that are of type JPEGs (.jpg), GIFs (.gif), Bitmaps (.bmp), and PNG images (.png).
Adobe PDF (.pdf) documents are delivered without conversion to Kindle DX, Second Generation and Latest Generation Kindles.
[...]

Does anybody have an idea, what the problem might be?

Thanks,
Genmutant

Manichean · 10-24-2010, 05:44 AM

From what it sounds like, that recipe has created a format that Amazon doesn't support. Did you have a look which format got created? What's your preferred ebook format set to in preferences?

Genmutant · 10-24-2010, 05:51 AM

Yes, I thought so too, but it's a MOBI, which is also my preferred format.

Manichean · 10-24-2010, 05:55 AM

Is there a way you can get to the email Calibre sent (e.g. if you're using Google Mail, it should be in sent mails)? If so, get the mobi file and check whether it's broken.

Also, I just noticed that the Süddeutsche recipe is the only recipe that uses Umlaute (what the hell are those things called in english?), which you'd see again in the filename, I think. Maybe Amazon doesn't support those?

Genmutant · 10-24-2010, 06:49 AM

I never thought off looking in the Sent Mails! Thanks, there seems to be the problem:
The file doesn't get a name... It's named "noname". If I rename it to smth.mobi, I can open it in Calibre. So it seems that Calibre can't handle sending umlauts?

EDIT:
I changed the title of the recipe to Sueddeutsche, and this time it worked! Thank you!

Manichean · 10-24-2010, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Genmutant

I never thought off looking in the Sent Mails! Thanks, there seems to be the problem:
The file doesn't get a name... It's named "noname". If I rename it to smth.mobi, I can open it in Calibre. So it seems that Calibre can't handle sending umlauts?

I don't know. Try testing it by creating a new book with an Umlaut in the title, then sending it via email. What I can say is that it looks like Amazon does its filetype detection solely based on file extensions, since, although it's a working mobi file, they weren't able to detect it as such.

mrmikel · 10-24-2010, 07:18 AM

As far as I know umlaut in German is umlaut in English. There may be specialists in phonemes or something that might call them something else I have never heard of.

10-24-2010, 06:49 AM	#5
Genmutant Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Germany Device: Kindle 3	I never thought off looking in the Sent Mails! Thanks, there seems to be the problem: The file doesn't get a name... It's named "noname". If I rename it to smth.mobi, I can open it in Calibre. So it seems that Calibre can't handle sending umlauts? EDIT: I changed the title of the recipe to Sueddeutsche, and this time it worked! Thank you! Last edited by Genmutant; 10-24-2010 at 07:00 AM.

10-24-2010, 07:18 AM	#7
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	umlaut is called umlaut As far as I know umlaut in German is umlaut in English. There may be specialists in phonemes or something that might call them something else I have never heard of.

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10-24-2010, 05:44 AM	#2
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	From what it sounds like, that recipe has created a format that Amazon doesn't support. Did you have a look which format got created? What's your preferred ebook format set to in preferences?

10-24-2010, 05:51 AM	#3
Genmutant Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Germany Device: Kindle 3	Yes, I thought so too, but it's a MOBI, which is also my preferred format.

10-24-2010, 05:55 AM	#4
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Is there a way you can get to the email Calibre sent (e.g. if you're using Google Mail, it should be in sent mails)? If so, get the mobi file and check whether it's broken. Also, I just noticed that the Süddeutsche recipe is the only recipe that uses Umlaute (what the hell are those things called in english?), which you'd see again in the filename, I think. Maybe Amazon doesn't support those?

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