diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4191e3a0..b9bd5ef7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## untagged
 
+- Don't fix file owner ship of /home/vmail 
+  ([#345](https://github.com/deltachat/chatmail/pull/345))
+
 - Support iterating over all users with doveadm commands 
   ([#344](https://github.com/deltachat/chatmail/pull/344))
 
diff --git a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py
index 2cab5a5e..16b365eb 100644
--- a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py
+++ b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py
@@ -465,11 +465,6 @@ def deploy_chatmail(config_path: Path) -> None:
     )
     server.user(name="Create echobot user", user="echobot", system=True)
 
-    server.shell(
-        name="Fix file owner in /home/vmail",
-        commands=["test -d /home/vmail && chown -R vmail:vmail /home/vmail"],
-    )
-
     # Add our OBS repository for dovecot_no_delay
     files.put(
         name="Add Deltachat OBS GPG key to apt keyring",