Mail constantly synchronising (iCloud imap - Mavericks)

Since upgrading to Mavericks, I have had a slew of problems. One major issue is:
Mail is constantly synchronizing every imap folder. As soon as it finishes, If i click on any new message, folder, or file a mesage, etc.... Mail will start syncing every folder again.
This is not a big issue at home with 500M speed internet, but at work and on the road where I have as slow as 3M speed, it slows down everything, since moving messages or loading messages with attachments crawl when the synchronizing is going on.
Any ideas how to end it from synchronizing non stop?

Rebuild? I just built them last night for first time, as I did a clean install of Mavericks and fresh install of my IMAP iCloud account so that i could get a clean download of all emails. I suppose I can try that again tonight

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