is there a mail app that does this?

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:31:13 -0500, dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

Others may chip in. I'm not aware of a mailer that does this directly,
but there are plenty of scripts for dynamic updating of a random
tagline in a fixed place that the mailer can scarf up.

-- 
 Collins