Silencing fetchmail

[Alex Snow]

It was biff that was doing it.  I changed the line in /etc/profile to biff
n and it fixed the problem

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On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> No, fetchmail isn't telling you about mail.  There's three possibilities
> that might be doing it though.  If you're using slackware out of the box
> that narrows to one though.  In slackware you can put biff n in
> .bash_login and that'll silence the beeping and new mail messages.
> There's also newmail that may have to be silenced or wnewmail if they're
> being used.  Check /etc/profile and look for new mail and you should find
> what's telling you about new mail under that line.
>
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