Comment 12 for bug 270271

Shortly after posting the above, and closing down the computer, I found, on rebooting that I had the famous ".dmrc file being ignored" pop-up.
Attempting to fix that via the terminal, I must have entered a typo when recursively changing the mode and ownership of my home partition, and lost /home, and of course, booting, for a couple of hours.
After repairing that problem (via google and my WinDoze part: good thing the machine is still dual-boot!) Evolution is behaving normally. Go figure.
Kind regards,
Bruce.