Is there a way to automatically mute sound during the night?

Hello,
My 77-year old mother doesn't sleep very well and awakes evey time her Mac plays an incoming-email sound. She tries hard to turn off the sound before she goes to bed, but often forgets to do so.
I wonder if there is a way (apart from sleep or shutdown) that automatically mutes the sound from let's say 23:00 until 08:00. A command, that can be issued from Terminal.app would be fine too, I could run that from cron.
Kind regards,
Adam.
12 PBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
12 PBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

you can do that also with automator workflows, there is an action called "set computer volume", you create two workflows, the firs turn off the volume, the second turn it on. Then you can schedule them with cronnix.
hope this post can help you.

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