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[Kunal A.]

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 at 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 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >  > >
> > >
>
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