diff --git a/roles/tools/tasks/main.yml b/roles/tools/tasks/main.yml
index 806480e..1efb8b1 100644
--- a/roles/tools/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/tools/tasks/main.yml
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
   ansible.builtin.file:
     path: "{{ tools_root }}/snappymail/data"
     state: directory
-    owner: "{{ deploy_user }}"
-    group: "{{ deploy_group }}"
-    mode: "0750"
+    owner: "82"    # www-data uid in Alpine (SnappyMail container user)
+    group: "82"
+    mode: "0755"
 
 # ── TLS certificate for mail.csrx.ru (via certbot + Cloudflare DNS-01) ───────
 - name: Install certbot and Cloudflare DNS plugin