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
> >