You may need to start the saslauthd daemon for authentication with the system password files: %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh start or you can use sasldb2 for authentication, to add users use: saslpasswd2 -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%%. Set sasl_pwcheck_method to %%PWCHECK_METHOD%%, after installing the Cyrus-IMAPd 2.1.7 port. You should also check the %%PREFIX%%/lib/sasl2/*.conf files for the correct pwcheck_method.