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Dave's not here
10-14-2001, 09:50 PM
I just switched from Mandrake 8.0 to Slackware 8.0 and run windowmaker. I use wmmail as a dock app to notify me graphically of new mail. Fetchmail grabs my mail from the server, but now my computer beeps and displays the message in the terminal window.whereas before it would not display the message or beep. WMMail still works fine, but does anyone have any idea what is telling the system to beep and show the new mail? TIA

error27
10-15-2001, 01:28 AM
I guess slack turns biff on by default.

type "biff n"
You could put that into your ~/.bash_profile

or "man biff"