Bug 768326

Description of problem:
I use kmail with multiple imap accounts on a local mail server. One of those accounts has a very large Trash folder (> 12.000 messages).

When working with kmail, it regularly stalls for minutes at a time in which you can't do anything sensible with it. In most cases these stalls seem to be because kmail is synchronizing the large Trash directory.

For example: I'm reading new mails in one imap folder (not the trash folder). When moving to the next mail, the message preview window shows
"Mapinhoud wordt opgehaald
Even geduld..."
This is Dutch and roughly translates to
"Folder contents is being fetched
Please wait..."

This can take several minutes, after which the mail is finally shown.

Another example:
Sending a mail sometimes fails with the error:
"Er trad een fout op bij het in de wachtrij voor verzending zetten: Append failed"
Which roughly translates as
An error occurred when adding to the send mail queue: Append failed"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdepim-4.7.3-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
All the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an imap account with a very large trash folder (perhaps the same happens with other folders as well, but it's the only one that's very big on my system)
2. Just try to use kmail. I get very frequent stalls during normal usage.
  
Actual results:
Switching from one mail message to another can take minutes, sending mails fail outright.

Expected results:
Switching from one mail message to another only happens with a minimal delay (ideally less than a second, but minutes is definitely too long), sending mails succeeds normally.

Additional info:
akonadiserver.error has multiple messages like this:
ItemRetrieverException :  Unable to retrieve item from resource: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. 

This is not a simple nuisance. The way kmail behaves on my system makes it completely unusable for intense mail processing.