Todd Deshane COSI Spring 2004: 1 Credit

COSI needed to setup mail aliases to abstract away the different contacts, for example if we wanted to setup an alias for rsvp's it could be rsvp@cosi.clarkson.edu instead of giving out a specific contact. Here is how to set it up on Gentoo

• #emerge postfix
• Look at the config files in /etc/postfix, you may need to set the myhostname variable depending on your configuration (one of the .cf files).
• Add alias(es) to file: /etc/mail/aliases
  e.g. if you want a admin account that sends to the root user and youremail@yourdomain.com then add the following line:
  admin: root youremail@yourdomain.com
  (there are other aliases in the file that you may want to look at.)
• # postfix start
• # newaliases
• now send mail to admin@yourhostname and mail will go to root@yourhostname and youremail@yourdomain.com

The other projects I worked on were pen2, presentations and the condor cluster.

For pen2, I found a simple example of internationalization:

# Python
import gettext
gettext.install("demoapp", localedir=".", unicode=True)

import Tkinter
t=Tkinter.Label(text=_("Hello, World"))
t.pack()
b=Tkinter.Button(text=_("Close"), command=t.tk.quit)
b.pack()

t.tk.mainloop()

Save this as a.py, and invoke

# Shell Command Line
xgettext a.py