Making progress now SASL per-process initialization failed process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 5790 exit status 1 usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling So i can assume that it finds the smtpd.conf file but doesn't like it /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf 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