The below error may occur “mail command not found” when we were trying to run the mail command to access a mailbox, maildir, mail file in Linux operating system such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian.
mail: command not found
or
The program ‘mail’ is currently not installed
To resolve this mail s issue.You can install the mail command as per your operating system.
How to Install mail Command ?
- For Installing mail command on CentOS/Redhat 8/7/6/5 you can use below command.
yum install mailx
or
yum -y install mailx
- For Installing mail command on Fedora 22+.
dnf install mailx
- For Installing mail command on Ubuntu/Debian/LinuxMint.
sudo apt-get install mailutils
Once the mail command packages successfully installed in your system, you can send a test email using below command.
echo “Message Body” | mail -s “Message Subject” receiver@domain.com
That’s it Guys hope the issue is now resolved let us know in comment box in case if ypu are still facing any issue while installing mail command.
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