Everyday my mail app synchronized thousands of e-mails, how to stop this?

Since i'm using Mountain Lion and using the one-click Archive functionality i got an unusual problem. My mail data is big, it's about 20GB+. About everyday the mail app is synchronizing my e-mail with the e-mail server. It does this for all account from different providers. It are about 10 e-mail accounts. All are IMAP or Exchange. I don't have any problems in use but as it's downloading over 500.000 messages you can understand it takes a while and it's kind of annoying.
Anyone know why suddenly my mail app is doing this and how to fix this? Side info: my e-mailaccounts are setup on an iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad.

NancyCarmichael wrote:
Hey Nancy,
Open your Messages folder > press the Menu key > Options > General Options > scroll about half way down to "Show Recent Contacts When Composing Email > Set to NO, and SAVE.
Sorry, I did leave out that middle step... in red above.
Thanks for catching me.
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