scmail-deliver command not found

Introduction

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

scmail-deliver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scmail-deliver: command not found

Solutions to scmail-deliver: command not found

How To Fix scmail-deliver: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scmail-deliver is provided by scmail package.

scmail is:

Scmail is a mail filter written in Scheme, you can write processing recipes in S-expression. Scmail can be used as a filter for an incoming mail, invoked each time by .forward, or it can be used as a mail processor to distribute existing mails into the right mailbox. It comes with a bayesian spam filter called scbayes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scmail

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

You can also use apt command to install scmail.

sudo apt -y install scmail

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

sudo aptitude install scmail

Summary

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