> On 25 February 2019 17:56 Kunal A. via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > > > Hey Guys! > Many thanks for your feedback. I have kind of gotten it to work but I just struggling to get the permissions of the folder correct. Highly appreciate if someone could help me set the correct permission settings for it . Terribly sorry for my ignorance. > > My error msg is listed below : - > > doveadm(vmail): Error: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0750) > doveadm(vmail): Error: Can't open mailbox Storage/Email: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0 >You need to give write permissions to vmail on /run/media/computer/Storage/Email You can - change owner to vmail - change group to vmail and add rwx for group - use posix ACLs - change mode to 0777 (unsafe) Aki
> On 25 February 2019 18:19 Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > > > > On 25 February 2019 17:56 Kunal A. via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hey Guys! > > Many thanks for your feedback. I have kind of gotten it to work but I just struggling to get the permissions of the folder correct. Highly appreciate if someone could help me set the correct permission settings for it . Terribly sorry for my ignorance. > > > > My error msg is listed below : - > > > > doveadm(vmail): Error: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0750) > > doveadm(vmail): Error: Can't open mailbox Storage/Email: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0 > > > > You need to give write permissions to vmail on /run/media/computer/Storage/Email > > You can > - change owner to vmail > - change group to vmail and add rwx for group > - use posix ACLs > - change mode to 0777 (unsafe) > > AkiAnd the same applies for all files & directories under /run/media/computer/Storage/Email Aki
Dear Aki, Many thanks for your feedback. Its what I figured I should do but I was not sure how safe it was. Would it make sense to execute the following to /run/media/computer so that the user/group is vmail? sudo chown -R vmail:vmail to the /run folder ? Also if this practice is safe to perform? Thanks Kunal A On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:20 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:> > > On 25 February 2019 18:19 Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > On 25 February 2019 17:56 Kunal A. via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey Guys! > > > Many thanks for your feedback. I have kind of gotten it to work but I > just struggling to get the permissions of the folder correct. Highly > appreciate if someone could help me set the correct permission settings for > it . Terribly sorry for my ignorance. > > > > > > My error msg is listed below : - > > > > > > doveadm(vmail): Error: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) > failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x > perm: /run/media/computer, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0750) > > > doveadm(vmail): Error: Can't open mailbox Storage/Email: > stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied > (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer, > dir owned by 0:0 > > > > > > > You need to give write permissions to vmail on > /run/media/computer/Storage/Email > > > > You can > > - change owner to vmail > > - change group to vmail and add rwx for group > > - use posix ACLs > > - change mode to 0777 (unsafe) > > > > Aki > > And the same applies for all files & directories under > /run/media/computer/Storage/Email > > Aki >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20190225/04243891/attachment.html>