Hi all,

I have my mail setup in ~/.fetchmailrc and I have 'fetchmail -s' setup
in a cron to run every 10 minutes. When I receive a new message, both
the system speaker beeps plus the message appears in any open terminal
window. I have some programs I keep running, like my BBS console,
snort console, BitchX, etc, and it throws off everything in these
windows when a message is stuck where ever the curser is currently at.

How can I disable this? I'm running Slackware 9.1, and I'm assuming
it's not fetchmail since I am using the -s switch. Does Slackware
have something running that notifies me of new messages as a
'convenience'? If so, I really need to find out how to disable it. I
want my mail to arrive in silence and I'll check when I have time.

Thanks for any suggestions or ideas,

Alex.

On Sun, 28 Feb 2004, Alex wrote:

What shell are you using in the terminal window? If it is bash for
example, then the shell will be checking for new mail every MAILCHECK
seconds. To disable this you can unset MAILCHECK or set it to a value
that is not greater than or equal to zero.

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Ian Gregory
Systems and Applications Manager
Learning and Information Services
University of Hertfordshire