03-26-2009, 12:45 AM | #1 |
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calibre 0.5.3 supports emailing books to the Kindle
Hi all,
I finally got around to implementing the long promised email support in calibre. As of 0.5.3 you can click a button to mail books to your kindle and have calibre automatically mail downloaded news to it as well. The email support is not kindle specific, so you can use it to email yourself books as attachments and access them on any device that lets you read email and has an ebook viewer. To set it up, start the preferences, go to "Email delivery", and type in a From email address (all emails sent by calibre will appear to come from this email address). Then just add as many To email address as you want and calibre will mail books to all of them. Once that's done, click the little arrow next to the Send to device button to actually email a book. calibre will normally try to send mail to the destination address directly from the computer it is running on, but if this doesn't work (because the destination email service only accepts mail from "well known" mail servers), you can also have calibre use your mail server to send the mails. Of course all these features are extremely beta, so YMMV. |
03-26-2009, 01:07 AM | #2 |
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Woohoo! Can't wait to try them out!
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03-26-2009, 01:49 AM | #3 |
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It doesn't seem to work for me (using gmail).
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03-26-2009, 02:38 AM | #4 |
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didyou try it wthout using a server?
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03-26-2009, 09:46 AM | #5 |
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03-26-2009, 10:48 AM | #6 |
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Still no luck.
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03-26-2009, 01:09 PM | #7 |
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Thanks, Kovid!
Works fine for me, without specifying a server. |
03-26-2009, 01:10 PM | #8 |
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03-26-2009, 01:21 PM | #10 |
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I got the same error.
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Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',) 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 81, in sendmail File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 73, in sendmail_direct IOError: Failed to send mail: SMTPServerDisconnected('Connection unexpectedly closed',) |
03-26-2009, 01:25 PM | #11 |
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Hmm... I'm not very happy about the python2.6 upgrade. calibre won't install anymore. Now I'm trying to get install python 2.6 locally on my system, but this is a hack, I'm not sure it'll work.
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03-26-2009, 01:59 PM | #15 |
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@daffy4u and Nate the great
Can one or both of you run the following command in a terminal Code:
calibre-smtp from@whatever.com to@somethingelse.com "test email" and to@ with your to address |
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