Cannot move message to trash in Mail

I cannot move my message to trash in Mail (Macbook Pro): "the destination mailbox does not allow message to be moved to it"

# check permissions
ls -l ~/.local/share/Trash
# fix permissions (to match skunk's)
chown you:you ~/.local/share/Trash
chmod 700 ~/.local/share/Trash

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