When I open a message with an attachment and choose to "Open" the attachment, thunderbird downloads the attachment and saves it in /tmp
and then opens it.
For security reasons I would like to be able to change the directory where the file is saved from /tmp
to somewhere (I will use an encrypted volume). I cannot find a setting in thunderbird to do this, does anyone know if this is possible?
Best Answer
I have a workaround: Thunderbird uses the standard environment variable
$TMP
by default to determine where to store temporary files. It also uses this folder when you select to "Open" a mail attachment.Therefore I have simply made a simple script to set this environment variable before launching thunderbird. I have modified my thunderbird shortcuts to use this script.
I would still be interested if anyone else has a more elegant solution; perhaps one that only affects the storage location of "Opened" attachments.