Thanks Jeff. I have been looking at the admin guide and appendices but will take another look. i beleive that the machine i was working on is at least part of my issue. i just built a VM to do testing with and can at least send a message via the perl script now…so i am part way there . still getting authentication issues trying to query the iSMS status even thought the user works.
when i said i was able to send messages via the browser, what i did was take the URL that the script was using and just past it in to the browser. not using the UI.
pretty sure that I have the send API properly configured. followed the manual.
i will take a look at those sample scripts that you put in there.
thanks for your help.
matt
also, i have been going over the Linux Journal article as well.