cannot connect to saslauthd server

[Noah]

FreeBSD 4.8 
sendmail 8.12.10  with sasl


okay I am using every once in a while I see the following complaints in my
/var/log/messages:

Sep 30 15:33:04 procmail[30342]: Renamed bogus "/var/mail/noah.lock" int
o "/var/mail/BOGUS.noah.OA8K"
Sep 30 22:03:33 sm-mta[38053]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No su
ch file or directory
Sep 30 22:03:33 sm-mta[38053]: Password verification failed
Sep 30 22:03:33 sm-mta[38053]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No su
ch file or directory


any clues what is going on here - how can I troubleshoot this?


thanks in advance,

Naoh