Apple Mail 7.3 - Always re-synchronizes all IMAP folders

I've been going back and forth with Apple Mail, changing clients every so often (Postbox, AirMail, whichever) when I get frustrated with Apple Mail (post-Mavericks update).
Anyways, with the Version 7.3 (1878.2) build, I figured I would give it another try to see if they've finally squashed enough bugs to make it useable.
Why (why why why why) is the software consistently trying to synchronize every single IMAP folder I have in my gmail account? Every time I open Mail and then check out the activity window, you see it consistently entereing and exiting IDLE states, trying to synchronize my many folders (I like to store and keep many parent/child folders).
Because it is consistently doing this over and over, when I go to file a message and it dissapears from my inbox, I can click away from the inbox and click right back to it, and my message comes right back (because it hasn't been processed yet due to the other activities going on with sync'ing).
I consider myself fairly proficient with self-servicing my mac woes, but this one has me stumped. Is Mail being extremely inefficient, or is this user-er
TIA
Mark

Apple Mail has always done this for IMAP accounts and not just for GMail either. I have one particular user - the boss (of course), who has a huge email account with many folders on the server, this user (of course) is also prone to clicking on many messages and folders and doing in rapid succession many moves, deletes and replies, this along with the massive resyncing of folders brings Mail to its knees. The boss will then unfairly blame the server, the Internet connection, the computer, etc. when it is the awful design of Mail at fault.

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