mailutil command not found

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

Introduction

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

mailutil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mailutil: command not found

Solutions to mailutil: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mailutil is provided by uw-mailutils package.

uw-mailutils is:

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a method of accessing electronic messages kept on a (possibly shared) mail server.

The UW (University of Washington) IMAP toolkit provides the c-client mail-handling library supporting various network transport methods, file system storage formats, and authentication and authorization methods.

This package contains helper tools for the libc-client library:

  • mailutil: utility program which helps manage email mailboxes (both local and IMAP/POP3/NNTP);
  • dmail: MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) for use with procmail;
  • tmail: MDA for use with the system mailer (such as Sendmail or Postfix).

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

sudo apt-get -y install uw-mailutils

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

You can also use apt command to install uw-mailutils.

sudo apt -y install uw-mailutils

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

sudo aptitude install uw-mailutils

Summary

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