is there a mail app that does this?

[Tim Wunder]

On 1/3/2005 10:48 AM, I believe that dep wrote:
> 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.

Would setting up multiple identities, with different sigs for each identity, 
be sufficient?

KMail can do that easily enough...

HTH,
Tim