Linking mailboxes

[Aki Tuomi]

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 at 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.
> 
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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:36 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at 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 at 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 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
> >  > >
> >