newmail command not found

Introduction

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

newmail: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: newmail: command not found

Solutions to newmail: command not found

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

In Ubuntu newmail is provided by newmail package.

newmail is:

The newmail program usually puts itself in the background and watches mailbox files in order to report when new mail has been arrived. The originator and subject will then be reported on the terminal it was started. The output can also be integrated in graphical programs.

This package is inspired by the newmail program from the Elm mail system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install newmail

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

You can also use apt command to install newmail.

sudo apt -y install newmail

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

sudo aptitude install newmail

Summary

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