[ale] beeping sendmail.cf [was: beeping procmail]

[David S. Jackson]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:25:43PM -0400 Alan Bowman <aminus at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >That sounds good; I just wanted the beeps to go away.  :-)  Turns out
> >I set beep=no in muttrc, but I am still hearing beeps, so at least
> >some beeps are coming from somewhere else.  Ah well.  Back to looking
> >for the cause of the irritating beeps during mail fetch...
> 
>   I run Slack 9, with a default sendmail install. I get a very low,
> almost inaudible beep when mail downloads. If I'm downloading a lot of
> mail, I get maybe one beep.  What WindowManager are you running? Is it
> possible that the WindowManager is set to beep at certian events?

Okay, I'm really embarrassed now, but I think this is all due to a
biff y statement in the default /etc/profile on Slack 9.  

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David S. Jackson                                dsj at dsj.net
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