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I need to send a large number of users a mail with some info in it on the pst that was detected and what they need to do with it. I can do this with sending them one mail at a time from a mail client but need to send them from the solaris box with mailx, I can send the mail and put all the data in it I need but cannot figure out how to script it so I can send to each user with the right data I need for each user.

I have file with the users mail address and location of their pst file which is tab seperated such as:

# cat users-pst.txt

aantippas@abx.xyz.com      D:/Program Files/Outlook/AAntipp07.pst
abruce@abx.xyz.com      D:/Documents/Mail/Eudora mails.pst
ACrespos1@abx.xyz.com      D:/Documents/Mail/outlook.pst
aekan@abx.xyz.com      D:/Documents/Mail/Personal Folders.pst      
jdoe@abx.xyz.com      D:/Documents/Outlook/Personal Folders.pst


I can use a small script such as this to mail what I need to the users.

Example of mail to first user on the list (aantippas@abx.xyz.com   D:/ProgramFiles/Outlook/AAntipp07.pst)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict ;
use warnings ;

open MAIL,'|mailx -s "Outlook PST" aantippas@abx.xyz.com';

print MAIL  <<EOM;

some info for users.........

You getting this email because..... D:/Program Files/Outlook/AAntipp07.pst .........

more info for users......

EOM

close MAIL or die $!;


How can I loop through the file users-pst.txt in the script and replace the mail address and the path to the pst for each user?
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Zone: Programming
Question Asked By: bt707
Solution Provided By: Tintin
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