sieve-connect command not found

Introduction

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

sieve-connect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sieve-connect: command not found

Solutions to sieve-connect: command not found

How To Fix sieve-connect: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sieve-connect is provided by sieve-connect package.

sieve-connect is:

This is sieve-connect. A client for the MANAGESIEVE protocol, as implemented by timsieved in Cyrus IMAP.

sieve-connect is designed to be both a tool which can be invoked from scripts and also a decent interactive client. It should also be a drop-in replacement for “sieveshell”, as supplied with Cyrus IMAP.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sieve-connect

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

You can also use apt command to install sieve-connect.

sudo apt -y install sieve-connect

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

sudo aptitude install sieve-connect

Summary

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