Thunderbird snap unable to send or save messages with custom download dir location

Bug #2065542 reported by A

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thunderbird (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Package: thunderbird
Version: 2:1snap1-0ubuntu3

I have KDE with custom downloads folder location (/mnt/M.2/Downloads in my case), and when I try to send or save message I have msg box with "error sending message"

In `journalctl -f` there is following message

kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1715558212.734:570): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mkdir" class="file" profile="snap.thunderbird.thunderbird" name="/mnt/M.2/Downloads/thunderbird.tmp/" pid=52900 comm="thunderbird-bin" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000

A (zorn-v)
affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) → thunderbird (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Is that directory an actual mount from another location? That's more of a snapd question

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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A (zorn-v) wrote :

Yep, it is another physical device

/dev/sda2 46G 12G 32G 28% /
/dev/nvme0n1p1 938G 672G 220G 76% /mnt/M.2

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A (zorn-v) wrote :

> That's more of a snapd question

Why thunderbird (snap version) save own temp files in "downloads" at all ?

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Jora Sucharik (c3374610) wrote (last edit ):

> Why thunderbird (snap version) save own temp files in "downloads" at all ?
Snapcraft's people choice.

As thunderbird is packaged as snap and with default settings, it's unusable. I ran into the same problems - you can't send a mail neither save it as draft.

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Jora Sucharik (c3374610) wrote :

Snapcraft's people suggested a workaround:

sudo snap connect thunderbird:removable-media

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A (zorn-v) wrote :

> Snapcraft's people suggested a workaround

Thanks

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