Hello, I'm working on our company newsletter, for our employees, that is sent out via email. What I am trying to do is to replace a bracketed tag NAME, that is embedded within the template, with the name of the person in the database. What I am finding is that the first person's name in the db is being retained in the template when being sent instead of being replaced by the person the message is intended for. What step am I missing to resolve this issue? 
 open (FILE, "$datadir/sendme.txt") || &error_message("Can't file temp
+ file for sending mail - $datadir/sendme.txt.");
$sendthis = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

 if ($action eq 'moremail')
         {
         $osubject = $INFO{'osubject'};
         $usename = $INFO{'usename'};
         $obname = $INFO{'obname'};
         $oaname = $INFO{'oaname'};
         $list = $INFO{'list'};
         $osubject =~ s/_/ /g;
         $osubject =~ s/%26/\&/g;
         $oaname =~ s/_/ /g;
         $oaname =~ s/%26/\&/g;
         $obname =~ s/_/ /g;
         $obname =~ s/%26/\&/g;
         }
 else
         {
         $startat = 0;
         }

 open (FILE, "$datadir/$list\.txt") || die "Can't open $datadir/lists\
+.txt\n";
 @info = <FILE>;
 close(FILE);
 $num = @info;
 $endat = $startat + $increment;
 $lastone = 0;
 if ($num < $endat)
         {
         $endat = $num;
         $lastone = 1;
         }
 for ($a = $startat; $a < $endat; $a++)
         {
         ($name,$recipient,$nochop) = split(/,/,$info[$a]);
         if ($recipient =~ /.*\@.*\..*/)
                 {


                 open (MAIL, "|$mailprog") || die "Can't open $mailpro
+g!\n";
                 print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
                 print MAIL "From: $omultiname < $omultimail >\n";
                 print MAIL "Subject: $osubject\n";
                              print MAIL "Content-type: text/html;\n\n
+";
                 if ($usename eq 'yes')
                         {
                         print MAIL "$obname $name$oaname<BR>\n\n";
               $sendthis=~s/\[NAME\]/$name/gie;
                         }

                 print MAIL $sendthis, "\n";
                 close (MAIL);
                 }
         }

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Any help would be greatly appreciated! Lisaw

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