mailstat command not found

Introduction

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

mailstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mailstat: command not found

Solutions to mailstat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mailstat is provided by procmail package.

procmail is:

Can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (very convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.

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

sudo apt-get -y install procmail

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

You can also use apt command to install procmail.

sudo apt -y install procmail

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

sudo aptitude install procmail

Summary

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