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ACL plugin page improvements #1166

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Expand Up @@ -18,16 +18,21 @@ shared mailboxes work, see [[link,shared_mailboxes]].

Dovecot supports both administrator-configured ACL files and the IMAP ACL
extension (see [[plugin,imap-acl]], which allows users to change ACLs
themselves.
themselves).

The ACL code was written to allow multiple ACL backends, but currently Dovecot
supports only virtual ACL files.

Note that using ACLs doesn't grant mail processes any extra filesystem
::: warning
Using ACLs doesn't grant mail processes any extra filesystem
permissions that they already don't have.

[[link,shared_mailboxes_permissions,You must make sure that the processes have enough permissions]]
to be able to access the mailboxes. When testing you could first try
accessing shared/public mailboxes without ACL plugin even enabled.
to be able to access the mailboxes.

To test, you can first try accessing shared/public mailboxes without
ACL plugin enabled.
:::

## Settings (dovecot.conf)

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