Linking mailboxes

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Feb 25 18:19:30 EET 2019


> 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


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