configuring exim in debian

hello,

i hope this is a simple question. i installed debian, which uses
exim, a mailer with which i am totally unfamiliar (i normally use
slackware, and sendmail). and, i admit, i have no desire to become
familiar with exim.

all i want to be able to do is rewrite my from: address in mutt. my
login name is mpowe but i want the outgoing name to be 'michael'.
i've been doing this on my other box for years. so, instead of
'(E-Mail Removed)', i want '(E-Mail Removed).' exim rejects
these mails with the error,

(E-Mail Removed)
unknown local-part "michael" in domain "trollope.org"

the machine on which i installed debian is going to be just a mail
server, fetching from my ISP with fetchmail and delivering outbound
mail with, i suppose, exim. it's replacing another machine that
currently does this using slack. it only needs to make local
deliveries in the way sendmail does on my other boxen (i.e.,
everything coming in on port 25 goes to me and i procmail it).

i probably dorked up the configuration on the install, but i have no
idea whatever how to fix it.

thanks for any help.

mp

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Michael Powe <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> hello,
>
> i hope this is a simple question. i installed debian, which uses
> exim, a mailer with which i am totally unfamiliar (i normally use
> slackware, and sendmail). and, i admit, i have no desire to become
> familiar with exim.
>
> all i want to be able to do is rewrite my from: address in mutt. my

Just edit /etc/email-addresses

Also, you might like to know about the existance of the tool called
eximconfig which is what was run when the package was installed.

mpowe:(E-Mail Removed)

I use this for my internal network.

When I saw how easy it is, I almost cried with joy (email config was
something of a perpetual nightmare).

> login name is mpowe but i want the outgoing name to be 'michael'.
> i've been doing this on my other box for years. so, instead of
> '(E-Mail Removed)', i want '(E-Mail Removed).' exim rejects
> these mails with the error,
>
> (E-Mail Removed)
> unknown local-part "michael" in domain "trollope.org"

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Michael Powe <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> i hope this is a simple question. i installed debian, which uses
> exim, a mailer with which i am totally unfamiliar (i normally use

Debian uses whatever mailer you install. I use sendmail (on debian,
from the standard debian package).

> slackware, and sendmail). and, i admit, i have no desire to become
> familiar with exim.

Then don't.

Peter