is there a mail app that does this?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 03 January 2005 01:28 am, dep wrote:
> quoth A. Khattri:
> | I am using the fortune program to select from a Jargon file database
> | (as below). Im using Pine (which allows you to pull a signature from
> | a program).
>
> kmail apparently does also, so fortune might well be the ticket. is
> there any trick format involved in the database -- need it be done with
> some special app, or can it be put together in a text editor?

Fortune is one such program.   I have a program that I wrote that selects a 
'witty saying' as below...  using a random number within a file of about 
2,500 such sayings.   The program is called from kmail at compose time.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         01/03/05 02:06  +
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