is there a mail app that does this?

[Matthew Carpenter]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

That's how I used to do it.  Not always Kmail, but a call to an external
program, most often "fortune", sometimes "uptime".
Pine and elm both used to let you specify (much like procmail) and
external program to grab the output from by typing "|/some/program"
which was generally my script which then called fortune and either
modified stuff inline or dumped it to a text file and manipulated it there.

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking about the program versus text
editor?  I believe fortune's database is not text-editable (I could be
wrong) but do you want to do something that "$ fortune > temp.file"
doesn't get you?

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?

- --
Matthew Carpenter
matt at eisgr.com                          http://www.eisgr.com/

Enterprise Information Systems
* Network Server Appliances
* Security Consulting, Incident Handling & Forensics
* Network Consulting, Integration & Support
* Web Integration and E-Business
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFB2Udaso9lqh4MragRAhmdAKCcL25x+ekcnujLdRytQybwgAQk4gCfeAhj
zG8BugwPay801ZMhfExNPCU=
=uxCy
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----