282716 - Mozilla mail client spontaneously creates NSTMP folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88515

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Russell S.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Over the past several days... I start Mozilla Mail to find that a folder called
NSMTP has been created. It usually contains a copy of the files located in my
inbox. Sometimes a second folder called NSMTP1 is also created, with the same
files. I have deleted these folders with no bad effects, only to have them
reappear on a seemingly daily basis.

Reproducible: Didn't try




I have been using Mozilla mail for over a year and this behavior just started.
The only new program I can think might be effecting Mail is my recent install of
the x1 search application version 5. The timing of the NSMTP folder's appearance
doesn't coincide perfectly with x1, but I thought I'd mention it.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

/mailnews/base/src/nsMsgFolderCompactor.cpp, line 293 --
m_fileSpec.SetLeafName("nstmp");
/mailnews/base/src/nsMsgFolderCompactor.cpp, line 294 --
m_fileSpec.MakeUnique(); //make sure we are not crunching existing nstmp file

I'm pretty sure you mean "NSTMP", rather than "NSMTP", as you have so stated.

What is this X1 search application, and how does it work?

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

This would be a dupe of Bug 88515 then if it's "NSTMP".

Comment 3

[Russell S.]

I'm sure Stephen is correct... it was NSTMP. I must have gotten my letters mixed
up. To answer his question about X1... it's an email and file indexer which is
used to make speedy searches of my mail. Fully details about the product are
available at www.x1.com 

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Most certainly that cool-looking X1 desktop search application is exacerbating
whatever is causing our NSTMP situation in the first place.

So, marking this a DUP of that bug.  Feel free to comment in that bug, though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88515 ***