imapcopy command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix imapcopy command not found error message

Introduction

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

imapcopy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: imapcopy: command not found

Solutions to imapcopy: command not found

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

In Ubuntu imapcopy is provided by imapcopy package.

imapcopy is:

IMAPCopy is a small command line tool to copy messages for multiple users from one imap server to another. You can use it with any IMAP implementation, for example you can migrate from Cyrus to MS Exchange or from MS Exchange to Courier IMAP.

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

sudo apt-get -y install imapcopy

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

You can also use apt command to install imapcopy.

sudo apt -y install imapcopy

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

sudo aptitude install imapcopy

Summary

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