BTW, the quoting syle of your e-mail client makes this hard to follow. I'm unsure which of the comments belong to which reply. On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 22:44 +0530, Rajeshwar Bharathi wrote: > #sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN > [root@aws1234]# cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain > Password: Test with testsaslauthd first, before going on the other things. What mechanism is saslauthd using to authenticate users? See 'ps ax | grep saslauthd' and the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd file. BTW I have a document with a chapter on Cyrus that might cover some stuff you are interested in. <http://sourceforge.net/projects/coils/files/WMOGAG-Coils.pdf/download> Feedback appreciated. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/