mpopd command not found

Introduction

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

mpopd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mpopd: command not found

Solutions to mpopd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mpopd is provided by mpop package.

mpop is:

mpop is a fast and simple fetchmail replacement to retrieve mail from POP3 servers. Its main features are header based mail filtering, multiple authentication methods, TLS encrypted connections or delivery.

There are a few things mpop can do that fetchmail can’t or that it does better:

• mpop never ever tries to parse mail information except for the envelope-from address, which is the bare minimum that it has to do.
• mpop never ever alters mail messages except for adding a “Received” header, which is the bare minimum that it has to do.
• mpop uses several techniques (including pipelining) to reduce the POP3 protocol overhead. It is therefore much faster than fetchmail.
• By default, mpop stores the mail UIDs (unique ids) in one file per account. You can poll different mail accounts in parallel.
• The progress output is nicer ;-)
• You can pipe the headers of a mail through a filter that decides if the mail should be downloaded, skipped, or deleted. This allows one to delete junk mail from a POP3 server without downloading the entire message.
• mpop can deliver mails directly to mbox and maildir mail folders.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mpop

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

You can also use apt command to install mpop.

sudo apt -y install mpop

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

sudo aptitude install mpop

Summary

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