As suggested (NikkolaPD Nov 12) here are more details of my iMac installationin
My iMac is
iMac (27 inch, Late 2013)
MacOS Catalina 10.15.1
Processor 3,5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR
Startup disk Fusion disk consisting of 480GB SSD, 120GB Flash. APFS formatted.
The original Fusion disk (rotating + flash) was substituted for SSD+Flash fusion by Humac Danmark (Apple Danmark) a couple of years ago.
It was running High Sierra up to a couple of weeks ago. I had to clean install Catalina in order to upgrade.
Catalina 10.15.1 was clean installed on the fusion disk via a bootable USB stick.
(Bootable USB stick created, Boot from USB stick, Erase and reformat with APFS the Macintosh HD volume, rebuild as Fusion volume, Migration assistant to restore sw from a Time machine backup). (see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8551587 )
I tried the fix posted by clivesey 10th Oct 2019 1:03AM but still have the same mail problem. I have also tried clearing out all my mails in all my accounts (iCloud mail; gmail, hotmail) and applying the fix again. Still same problem. I have lots of space on my mac ( 64GB available of a 600GB SSD/flash 'fusion' drive) and am using iCloud storage where I also have tons of available space (1,8TB available!). Hope there comes a Catalina fix soon addressing this problem.