sieve-filter command not found

Introduction

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

sieve-filter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sieve-filter: command not found

Solutions to sieve-filter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sieve-filter is provided by dovecot-sieve package.

dovecot-sieve is:

Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It supports mbox/Maildir and its own dbox/mdbox formats, and should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable.

This package provides Sieve filters support for Dovecot.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-sieve

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

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

sudo apt -y install dovecot-sieve

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

sudo aptitude install dovecot-sieve

Summary

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