Hey Aki,
Sorry for the trouble but I am still unable to get it working. The file permissions for upper files are now drwxr-xr-x. but I think they need to be drwxr-x--x+ ?
Any idea how to change it to that?


Error log is below:-

doveadm(lightdm): Error: Can't open mailbox Storage/Email: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=976(lightdm) egid=976(lightdm) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer/Storage/Email, dir owned by 5000:5000 mode=0700)
doveadm(setroubleshoot): Error: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=975(setroubleshoot) egid=975(setroubleshoot) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer/Storage/Email, dir owned by 5000:5000 mode=0700)
doveadm(setroubleshoot): Error: Can't open mailbox Storage/Email: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=975(setroubleshoot) egid=975(setroubleshoot) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer/Storage/Email, dir owned by 5000:5000 mode=0700)
doveadm(dovenull): Error: stat(/run/media/computer/Storage/Email/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=974(dovenull) egid=973(dovenull) missing +x perm: /run/media/computer/Storage/Email, dir owned by 5000:5000 mode=0700)
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:58 AM Kunal A. <kunal.oa@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Aki,
Many thanks again. Thanks for explaining this.
Very grateful for your assistance.
Thanks a bunch !
Kunal


On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:56 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:
At minimum directories

/run/media/computer/Storage/

need to have o+x, so you can do

chmod o+x /run /run/media /run/media/computer /run/media/computer/Storage

and

chown -R vmail:vmail /run/media/computer/Storage/Email

Aki

> On 25 February 2019 18:47 Kunal A. via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Aki,
> I have given permission to the folders Storage/Email to vmail.
> But the upper hierarchy is not under vmail .
>
> Full directory = /run/media/computer/Storage/Email
>
> /run/media/computer = not vmail
> Storage/Email = vmail
>
> How do I get this corrected ? It seems like vmail needs access through all through run/media/computer .
>
> Please excuse my ignorance as I am not very familiar with filesystem permissions. :-/
>
> Sincere apologies for the trouble.
>
> Thanks
> Kunal A.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:36 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:
> > I would only run it for the mail folders to be safe.
> > 
> >  Aki
> > 
> >  > On 25 February 2019 18:34 Kunal A. via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > 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@open-xchange.com> wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > > On 25 February 2019 18:19 Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> >  > > >
> >  > > >
> >  > > > > On 25 February 2019 17:56 Kunal A. via dovecot <dovecot@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
> >  > >
> >