I'm new to PERL. I want to create a PERL Script that could send mail by taking all required fields from an input file present at desktop and can send a mail to everyone in mailing list (separated by comma) accordingly. Contents of my input data file is as follows:

Recipients are enclosed between tags TO & ENDTO.

Subject of mail is enclosed between SUBJECT & ENDSUBJECT.

Body of mail is enclosed between BODY & ENDBODY.

Sample data file :

TO
rahul@example.com,you@everyone.com
ENDTO

SUBJECT
Weekly status snapshot for WW-5
ENDSUBJECT

BODY
Hi All,
Weekly progress snapshot for this week will be taken on Thursday, 30 Jan at the end of the day. ( Please update your status before the snapshot)
Use work week number as 5 for this week's updates .
Note : If you want any additional data to be picked up ( or dropped ) from your sheets, do work with me so that status collation script can be updated to do this .
Thanks ,
-Ram
ENDBODY


Till now I'm using a code that takes inputs from two different files ("message.txt" & "recipients.txt") and sends mail accordingly. But now I want to parse data from a single file separated by tag fields for recipients, body and subject.
$mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; my $file1 = 'message'; open my $ifh1, '<', $file1; local $/ = undef; my $contents = <$ifh1>; my $file2 = 'recipients'; open my $ifh2, '<', $file2; local $/ = undef; my $recip = <$ifh2>; close( $ifh2 ); close( $ifh1 ); $subject= "Weekly status snapshot for WW-3"; open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t"); print MAIL "To: $recip \n"; #print MAIL "bcc: rahul.agarwal\@everyone.com\n"; print MAIL "From: rahul.agarwal\@everyone.com\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; print MAIL "$contents"; close(MAIL);

In reply to Parse text file data to send a mail. by rahu_6697

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