The example command in the GNU mailutils documentation (http://mailutils.org/manual/html_node/mailutils-2047.html) fails, printing "mailutils: don't know what 2047 is" as the error message. Running it with strace shows the root cause:
stat("/usr/lib/mailutils/mailutils/mailutils-2047", 0x7ffd569d7770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) The build process for mailutils-3.4 actually produces an executable file mu/libexec/.libs/mailutils-flt2047, but it is never packaged into any .deb. If you build mailutils-3.4 using dpkg-buildpackage, then manually install that binary: # mkdir -p /usr/lib/mailutils/mailutils # cp ./mu/libexec/.libs/mailutils-flt2047 /usr/lib/mailutils/mailutils/ … then you would be able to run `mailutils flt2047`. (Note that the command is named "flt2047", in contrast to the documentation, which calls it "2047". That's an upstream bug.)