Can somebody please clarify the following in the documentation?
I am actually looging at the 2.x docs: In the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication file there is a good effort to clarify between authentication mechanisms and password schemes. The authentication mechanisms are described in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms. That is fine. But then looking at the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes there is a section "Non-plaintext authentication mechanisms" which looks to me to be a repeat of what there is in the description of the authentication mechanisms. This section lists one more mechanism, LANMAN.
Can somebody explain why this section is in this file? And which of the two is applicable. Thank you
Andreas