[ale] beeping sendmail.cf [was: beeping procmail]
David S. Jackson
deepbsd at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 14 21:44:41 EDT 2003
>
> Can you tie down what exactly is causing your beeps? Procmail,
> Sendmail, Fetchmail? Something else? I'm just trying to watch the
> maillog while the machine beeps and note which messages seem to be
> active during the beep.
Okay, it was a biff statement in /etc/profile. I just added a biff n
statement in my .bash_profile and all was quiet. Hadn't noticed
before how whenever I get mail, the first VT is filled with biff
output if I switch there during an X session. Sheesh. It was easy
afterall, but this was a time consuming trip through the
sendmail/procmail/fetchmail/mutt config files and man pages (and
googles).
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David S. Jackson dsj at dsj.net
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