It looks like you want the stuff between the headers as message, so this simple deal will build an array with indexes based on headers, if you want to preserve the newlines, just remove the chomp, otherwise process the array as you like: 
use strict;
my ($line, $i);
my @messages;
while(<DATA>){
    my $hdr = 0;
    if(/header/){ $hdr = 1; $i++; }
    unless($hdr){ chomp; $messages[$i-1] .= "$_ "; }
}

print "$_ \n" for @messages;

__DATA__
header
This is messge one line 1.
This is message one line 2.
header
Yet some more example text. Blah, blah..
Line 2 more blah, blah..

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JamesNC

In reply to Re: multi-line match by JamesNC
in thread multi-line match by pdotcdot

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