On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 02:10:24PM +0100, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote:
> Hi Haines,
>
> El Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:18:35 -0500
> Haines Brown <haines@???> escribió:
>
> > In debian I had the file /etc/aliases with more or less standard
> > entries, but don't know how it got there [...]
>
> It is commony created during the installation by debian-installer
> (and I see that devuan-installer does the same).

The devuan installer of Jessie (later upgraded to Ascii) did not
do it in my case.

> AFAIK, if you have exim installed you should have that file.
> I can see it in installlations of devuan-ascii made using the
> netboot iso.

Agiain, my installation of exim4 did not do it.

> Try 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config', maybe it creates it.

No, I've run that command several times.

> > Is this file a good thing to have or does devuan provide its
> > functionality elsewhere?
>
> It redirects all system emails to root, and all root emails to
> the user created during installation.

I believe I'd best create the file manually.

Haines