is there a mail app that does this?

[dep]

greets!

many of my fellow greybeards will remember the old days of fido and rime 
and of .qwk packets and of the wonderful little mail programs that were 
used to read and respond -- they really were sophisticated, clever 
applications, and it saddens me that much of their philosophy appears 
to have been lost in our current mail programs.

i am in search, now, of a mail program -- or an add-on for kmail or some 
such; i'd like to not lose my existing mail archive or keep a second 
mailer solely to be able to look at it -- which replicates one of the 
features of those old mailers: the ability to select from a file or 
directory containing oodles of them, at random a sig file or tagline.

it is inconceivable that such a thing does not exist, but i sure can't 
find one. anybody know where there is a mailer or add-on that does 
this?

thanks!
-- 
dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
				    -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"