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'pkmail' is an email interface for PyKota.

Currenty, 'pkmail' can be used by end users to retrieve their print quota information by email.

'pkmail' can't be used from the command line, except if you want to ask it for its version number or
its help.

You have to configure 'pkmail' to be launched from your mail server's '/etc/aliases' file, for example by adding a line like this 'myquota: "|/usr/bin/pkmail"' to it.

Then tell your mail server that your aliases database has changed by launching the 'newaliases' command,
and your end users can retrieve their print quota information by sending an email to 'myquota@yourserver'
with 'report john' in the mail's 'Subject' (if the user is named 'john').

**IMPORTANT :** By default this may not work because the permissions of '~pykota/pykota.conf' and '~pykota/pykotadmin.conf' don't allow your mail server to read them. Either change the permissions
or put the user your SMTP server runs as in the 'pykota' group, but please consult your mail server's
documentation to see any pros and cons of doing so.

In the future, 'pkmail' will have additionnal functionnalities.

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