Buzz/alert sound every two minutes

Since installing Yosemite, my iMac has starting making and annoying buzzer/alert sound approximately every two minutes. I've captured a recording of it here.
Can anyone tell me what this is? It's driving me crazy! I've installed Sound Bunny which shows you all the applications that a making sound and it's not reporting any applications. I don't have any notifications and have closed all applications.
Thanks

do you happen to use airmail 2? I had the exact same problem and I went to settings -> general -> sounds and unchecked that box and that solved the problem.

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