Mail alerts
 

Whenever I'm logged on as root, every time I recieve an email, an alert pops up on my screen. This isn't a terrible ordeal unless I'm editing a file, and then it really hoses things up. Can anyone tell me how to turn this feature off?

If you may be hint them with which distro and desktop
you're using?



Cheers,
Tink

If you are using KMail (that's the only mail client that shows alerts when a mail is received that i know) you can go to Settings > Configure KMail > Network > Receiving. There for each of you mail accounts click modify and disable interval mail checking or set a greater value so that you will be bothered less often.

Musta had a brain lock. I always say what distro I'm using! Anyway...

I'm running Slack 10. I have no idea if KMail is running or not, but this is happening when logged in to the console through SSH. I'm not running KDE, Gnome or even X-Windows because I don't have a terminal directly connected to this box.

If "pops-up" means you get text thrown into your
terminal there's an easy fix.

a) Edit /etc/profile, comment out the if-statement
that checks for and executes biff
or
b)
rm `which biff`


Cheers,
Tink

That would be what I'm looking for. Thanks!

Anytime :)


Cheers,
Tink