getmail command not found

Introduction

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

getmail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: getmail: command not found

Solutions to getmail: command not found

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

In Ubuntu getmail is provided by getmail6 package.

getmail6 is:

getmail6 is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3/IMAP4/SDPS servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into a qmail-style Maildir, mbox file or to a command (pipe delivery) like maildrop or procmail, specified on a per-account basis. getmail6 also has support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes.

Supported protocols: POP3, POP3-over-SSL, IMAP4, IMAP4-over-SSL, and SDPS mail.

getmail6 is based on getmail with adaptations for Python3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install getmail6

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

You can also use apt command to install getmail6.

sudo apt -y install getmail6

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

sudo aptitude install getmail6

Summary

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