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

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2025-10-03 at 11:55 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-10-03 at 09:50 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > I'll update this thread when/if I'll find anything.
> 
> It would be great if you could give a try to these patches, supposing
> you are more lucky than me to reproduce the problem.

Hi Milan, great news that you (at least rarely) see the problem.  I do
see it fairly regularly; pretty much every morning I get this issue in
at least some of my folders (I have a bunch of filtering rules set up).
Note this is without restarting Evo which I hardly ever do!

One other possibly-interesting thing: I have three email accounts in
this one Evo instance: my IMAPx account, where I get LOTS of mail, sees
this all the time.  My GMail account, where I don't get much mail, I've
seen it once, that I remember.  I guess GMail is close to IMAP.  But,
my work account is EWS (local Exchange, not MS365 or whatever) and I do
get a lot of email there as well and I have never had this happen in
that account as far as I recall.

I don't know if this helps narrow down anything or not.

I'm going to be attending a wedding (in another city) this weekend,
through Monday so I won't have much time to work on this (as you say,
it's a big effort to manage with flatpak).  I will try to find the time
next week if you still need my help.

I'm comfortable with applying patches and building stuff, but I wonder:
would it be more reasonable to make a VM running, say, Fedora with
native Evolution and try to build and apply the patches there rather
than messing with flatpak?  Since I use IMAP and GMail accounts it's no
problem for me to have a separate Evo instance.  I've been in the
Debian / Ubuntu ecosystem for the last 20+ years so my RedHat memory is
far out of date but maybe that would be a simpler way forward.