Evolution email (problem?)

From	Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Evolution email (problem?)
Date	2023-04-26 17:10 +0200
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Strange . . . 

I run Debian 11 (Bullseye) Stable, up to date, Gnome 3 desktop
environment.

I recently set up Evolution email.  Works okay.  

Two days ago, I realized that it absolutely refuses to delete email
messages directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder of any email
account.  To delete a message in the All Mail folder, that is not also
in another folder, the message must be moved into another folder and
then deleted from there. 

I sure think I remember being able to delete directly from the All Mail
folder when I first set up Evolution. 

I re-started Evolution.  No change.  
I re-booted. No change.
I did sudo aptitude reinstall evolution.  No Change.  
I moved ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db to Trash, then
re-started Evolution to construct a new folders.db file. No change.  
I did sudo aptitude purge evolution, then sudo aptitude install
Evolution.  No change.  
I moved ~/.local/share/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution, and
~/.config/evolution to Trash, then did sudo aptitude purge evolution,
then sudo aptitude install Evolution.  No change.  
I did some research online, seeking a solution, or at least a "good"
explanation.  No solution or "good" answer was found.  

But . . .   then I booted into a Debian 11.6 Live/Install usb thumb
drive, and then installed Evolution into the Live session, upon which
Evolution DID allow message deletion directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail
folder!  

Back to my regular Debian 11 Stable install.  No change.

It makes no sense to me that it would work from a Debian 11
Live/Install session, but not (currently) from a regular Debian
session.

Even if it did not work from a Live Debian session, it makes no sense
to me that Evolution could be designed this way.  I see no good reason
that messages can be directly deleted from any other folder, but not
[Gmail]/All Mail.  

Does anyone have a solution, so that messages must be moved to another
folder (if they are not also there already), just to be deleted?  Or at
least a "good" explanation as to why Evolution appears to be designed
this way?

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Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Evolution email (problem?) Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 17:20 +0200
    Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 23:20 +0200
  Re: Evolution email (problem?) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 04:30 +0200
    Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 16:40 +0200
      Re: Evolution email (problem?) Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-27 17:30 +0200
        Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 22:40 +0200
      Re: Evolution email (problem?) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 17:30 +0200
        Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 18:20 +0200
          Re: Evolution email (problem?) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-27 18:30 +0200
            Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 22:00 +0200
          Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-28 19:10 +0200
            Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-30 17:30 +0200
              Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-30 19:30 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-30 20:50 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-05-01 01:40 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-05-01 00:30 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-01 00:40 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-05-01 06:00 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-05-01 08:40 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-05-01 13:30 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2023-05-01 14:50 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2023-05-01 15:00 +0200
  Re: Evolution email (problem?) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-27 18:20 +0200
    Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 22:50 +0200

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