[Evolution-users] Hung/slow deletes in Evo 3.58 (IMAP)?

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2025-10-02 at 15:15 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-10-02 at 09:21 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > I recently updated my Evolution to 3.58.0 (flatpak, running on
> > Ubuntu
> > 20.04 LTS in Gnome / X) and I'm seeing two odd behaviors in my
> > IMAPx
> > account:
> > 
> > First, sometimes when I delete messages the messages sit in my
> > folder, marked with strikethrough, for quite a while (minutes,
> > sometimes). I can even delete more messages and those also sit
> > there, struck through,but still visible.  The message count on the
> > folder does not drop. If I switch away to another folder the
> > message count will suddenly drop and when I switch back, the
> > messages have disappeared.
> 
> I think this sort of thing is an interaction between Evolution and
> the IMAP server.... I use iCloud mail and it takes about 4 or 5
> seconds for the deleted messages to actually disappear.

Perhaps.  It feels... too coincidental to be related but coincidences
happen!  And the details I provided about the behavior don't seem to
align with this idea.  It doesn't always happen; it will happen in a
given folder for a while, then there won't be any problem in that
folder for a while.  It doesn't feel like any sort of predictable
timeout value.

Also, if I switch away from the folder all the messages are immediately
deleted, which implies some action by Evolution forced the delete.

I guess I can move back to the previous version of Evo and see if I
still see this behavior.

> So, for your particular issue, it may be that the IMAP provider has
> changed it's frequency of removing marked messages; it may also be
> that in the past you were not seeing the marked messages and that may
> have been accidentally changed (View -> Show Deleted Messages).

I did check my settings, including Show Deleted Messages, and wasn't
able to detect any change from what I expect (e.g., Show Deleted
Messages is not selected).