What beeps when mail arrives ?

[Kyle O'Donnell]

I tend to turn the pcspeaker off either by taking it out of the kernel or
unloading the module... might be extreme for this request though :)

On 1/16/07, Peter P. <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question: what beeps when new mail arrives ? I have biff etc
> turned
> off, but if there is any open shell, it beeps. This is annoying. 'env|grep
> MAIL'
> is empty, 'set|grep MAIL' yields MAILCHECK=60. Where is this bash behavior
> documented ? I suppose that unsetting MAILCHECK disables the beep, but
> what I
> need is the place where the beep is configured. Something like MAILCMD or
> such.
>
> thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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