is there a mail app that does this?

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon Jan 3 16:29:31 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:49:31AM -0500, A. Khattri took 34 lines to write:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, dep wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You just run a single command to rebuild the database file that fortune
> uses - hardly a "pretty long distance between two points".

Indeed. Create a single file with all of the sigs; make sure each sig is
separated by "%" on a line; issue "strfile <sigfile>" to create the index;
point fortune at that file: "fortune <sigfile>"; hook that up to kmail.

Kurt
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