smd-uniform-names command not found

Introduction

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

smd-uniform-names: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smd-uniform-names: command not found

Solutions to smd-uniform-names: command not found

How To Fix smd-uniform-names: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu smd-uniform-names is provided by syncmaildir package.

syncmaildir is:

Sync Mail Dir is a set of utilities to synchronize a pair of mailboxes in Maildir format, using SSH to transfer data. It provides the smd-pull utility to pull changes made on the remote mailbox, smd-push to propagate local changes to the remote mailbox, and smd-loop to iterate push and pull in a timely way.

The software is young and should thus be used with care in production environments.

Unlike OfflineIMAP, it does not require an IMAP server to be installed on the remote host. Moreover, it never attempts to automatically resolve conflicts between incompatible mailbox statuses - it just notifies the user explaining how to fix the problem.

Sync Mail Dir’s design is similar to that of Maildirsync, but is more efficient in terms of CPU cycles and disk I/O.

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

sudo apt-get -y install syncmaildir

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

You can also use apt command to install syncmaildir.

sudo apt -y install syncmaildir

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

sudo aptitude install syncmaildir

Summary

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