masqmail command not found

Introduction

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

masqmail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: masqmail: command not found

Solutions to masqmail: command not found

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

In Ubuntu masqmail is provided by masqmail package.

masqmail is:

Masqmail is an MTA (mail transport agent) for hosts with no permanent network connection, such as home network servers or notebook computers. It has special support for connections to different Internet Service Providers.

In these cases, Masqmail is a slim replacement for full-blown MTAs such as Sendmail, Exim, Qmail or Postfix.

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

sudo apt-get -y install masqmail

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

You can also use apt command to install masqmail.

sudo apt -y install masqmail

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

sudo aptitude install masqmail

Summary

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