Send Mobi to Kindle on MacOS Terminal

send_to_kindle.md

Send Mobi to Kindle on MacOS Terminal

Prerequisite

• Install mutt $ brew install mutt
• Install msmtp $ brew install msmtp
• Generate gmail application password

Config

# ~/.muttrc
 set sendmail=/usr/local/bin/msmtp

# ~/.msmtprc
defaults
auth           on
tls            on
logfile        ~/.msmtp.log
tls_certcheck off

# Gmail
account        gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           youracc@gmail.com
user           youracc
password       apppassword

# Set a default account
account default : gmail

Usage

# ~/.config/fish/config.fish
function send_to_kindle
    echo mobi | mutt -s mobi -a "$argv[1]" -- yourkindle@kindle.com
end

$ send_to_kindle ebook.mobi