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 auxprop. If you want to authenticate your user by /etc/passwd, PAM or LDAP, install ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd and set sasl_pwcheck_method to saslauthd after installing the Cyrus-IMAPd 2.X port. You should also check the %%PREFIX%%/lib/sasl2/*.conf files for the correct pwcheck_method.