One open bug is Bug 368380 - lots of temp files left around
In the intervening years, the following have been fixed (Plus some tmp bugs not related to sending mail - compact, etc) Bug 235432 TB13 - Mailnews/Thunderbird leaves unused nsqmail.tmp (nsqmail-*.tmp, nsemail.eml) files in temporary folder (TEMP or /tmp) after quit Bug 299655 TB15 - /tmp files left behind, some world-readable
These bugs have comments from some users that their issue was not fixed.
bug 58979 suggests the use of a subdir.
One open bug is Bug 368380 - lots of temp files left around
In the intervening years, the following have been fixed (Plus some tmp bugs not related to sending mail - compact, etc) Thunderbird leaves unused nsqmail.tmp (nsqmail-*.tmp, nsemail.eml) files in temporary folder (TEMP or /tmp) after quit
Bug 235432 TB13 - Mailnews/
Bug 299655 TB15 - /tmp files left behind, some world-readable
These bugs have comments from some users that their issue was not fixed.