is there a mail app that does this?

[dep]

quoth Matthew Carpenter:

| 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?

i have a directory, ~/.kde/sigs, which has various little sigs files in 
it. kmail lets me choose from among these. i add a new one as i find a 
particularly compelling quote or some such. with the old mailers it was 
possible, either through the mailer itself, through an add-on program, 
or by use of a text editor, to call up a tagline file and add and 
delete as one saw fit, then, via manipulation of settings, either to 
have a tagline selected at random or to be able, easily, at the time a 
message was written to select a tagline from the file.

the fortune program apparently allows the random selection, though i 
gather that it is a pretty long distance between two points to do 
something like add a new quote to the list -- apparently a script needs 
to be then run to tell the fortune program to include the new quote in 
the mix.
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dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
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