You may need to start the pwcheck or saslauthd daemon for authentication with the system password files: %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/cyrus_pwcheck.sh start or %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/saslauthd1.sh start or you can use sasldb for authentication, to add users use: saslpasswd -c username If you want to enable SMTP AUTH with the system Sendmail, read Sendmail.README NOTE: This port has been compiled with a default pwcheck_method of %%PWCHECK_METHOD%%. You may need to set sasl_pwcheck_method to %%PWCHECK_METHOD%% after installing either the Cyrus-IMAPd 1.6.24 or 2.0.17 ports. You should also check the %%PREFIX%%/lib/sasl/*.conf files for the correct pwcheck_method.