is there a mail app that does this?

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:49:46AM -0500, dep took 20 lines to write:
> quoth Bruce Marshall:
> 
> | 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.
> 
> is the program you wrote freely available?

Yup. fortune-mod, which can read from a variety of appropriately-formatted
data files. Everything you need is part of fortune-mod. All that remains
is to find the fortune files that please you and hook it up to kmail,
however that works. I use the following script:

#!/bin/sh
SIGFILE=$HOME/.signature
/usr/games/fortune -s | tee $SIGFILE

My mailer (mutt) can be persuaded to read the script's output directly.
The "| tee $SIGFILE" deposits the output in $HOME/.signature for
consumption by my newsreader.

Kurt
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