policyd-spf command not found

Introduction

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

policyd-spf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: policyd-spf: command not found

Solutions to policyd-spf: command not found

How To Fix policyd-spf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu policyd-spf is provided by postfix-policyd-spf-python package.

postfix-policyd-spf-python is:

postfix-policyd-spf-python is a full featured Postfix policy engine for SPF checking. It includes a variety of whitelisting mechanisms and policy options to enable it to support the widest variety of system requirements. It is implemented in pure Python and uses the python-spf module. The SPF web site is http://www.openspf.net/. It has been updated to support RFC

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

sudo apt-get -y install postfix-policyd-spf-python

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

You can also use apt command to install postfix-policyd-spf-python.

sudo apt -y install postfix-policyd-spf-python

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

sudo aptitude install postfix-policyd-spf-python

Summary

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