Thanks everyone for your input :)

The script works great now, but as per merlyn's request, I am not deploying this script until everyone is happy :)))) It is online, but there are no links to it, except the one on here.

Here is the final script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

################################
################################
###                          ###  
###  written by Rob Johnson  ###
###  www.robj.ca             ###
###  tellscript@robj.ca      ###
###                          ###
################################
################################

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';

# fixes the error with -t switch in mailprogram line?
# hey I don't know... but it works! :)
$ENV{'PATH'} = "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"; 

my $redirect = "http://www.robj.ca/told.htm";
my $sitename = "robj.ca";
my $siteurl = "http://www.robj.ca";
my $from = param('from');
my $to = param('to');
my $frommail = param('frommail');
my $tomail = param('tomail');
my $message = param('message');

###############################################
# make all first characters of names, uppercase

my @from = split(/ /, $from);
@from = map ucfirst, @from;

my @to = split(/ /, $to);
@to = map ucfirst, @to;

###############################################

# make the first letter of the message upper case
$message = ucfirst($message);

##############################################
# puts a period at the end of senders message,
# if one was not there, AND, if there is no
# question OR explanation mark.

$message .= '.' if $message !~ /[.!?]$/;

##############################################

# sending mail now...
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") || Error ('open', 'mail program'
+);
  print MAIL "From: $frommail\n";
  print MAIL "To: $tomail\n";
  print MAIL "Subject: @to, @from says check out $sitename!\n\n";
  print MAIL "This is NOT spam! You were sent the email by @from ($fro
+mmail),\nat IP: $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}\n\n\n";
  print MAIL "Hello @to, @from has sent you this email inviting you to
+ check out $siteurl\n\n\n";
  print MAIL "@from also had this to say:\n$message\n\n\n" if ($messag
+e ne "");
  print MAIL "So check out $siteurl!";
close (MAIL);

sub Error {
  print "The server can't $_[0] the $_[1]: $! \n";
  exit;
}

# ready browser for html output 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# redirect the browser...
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=$redirect\">";

# end
[download]

How can this script be made safe agaist people who would want to exploit it?
Would it take much more work?

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