Can't explain it, but it strikes me it's almost certainly a permissions problem.
Patrick On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:06 AM Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > > > >
