aiosmtpd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

aiosmtpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aiosmtpd: command not found

Solutions to aiosmtpd: command not found

How To Fix aiosmtpd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu aiosmtpd is provided by python3-aiosmtpd package.

python3-aiosmtpd is:

This is a server for SMTP and related protocols, similar in utility to the standard library’s smtpd.py module, but rewritten to be based on asyncio for Python 3.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-aiosmtpd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-aiosmtpd.

sudo apt -y install python3-aiosmtpd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-aiosmtpd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix aiosmtpd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.