I did the following and i am back at square one unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory Password verification failed SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure /etc/postfix/main.cf mydomain = lan myhostname = www.lan mynetworks = 127.0.0.1/32 myorigin = $mydomain mydestination = localhost $mydomain relay_domains = #mailbox_size_limit = #message_size_limit = home_mailbox = mailbox mailbox_transport = dbmail-lmtp:localhost:24 disable_dns_lookups = yes local_recipient_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/recipients.cf cyrus_sasl_config_path = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cf smtpd_sasl_path = /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, reject smtpd_tls_security_level = may smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/postfix/smtpd.cf pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sql mech_list: login plain cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm sql_engine: mysql sql_user: dbmail sql_passwd: sql_database: dbmail sql_statement: SELECT passwd FROM dbmail_users WHERE userid = '%u' log_level: 7 /etc/postfix/master.cf smtp inet n - n - - smtpd ...