Slow startup with remote IMAP folder

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

I just added another IMAP folder set to my mailbox list. This time the 
server must be contacted over our somewhat slow link to the outside world. 
As a result, the startup time increased significantly. Would it be 
possible to:

1) Scan folders in a separate thread.
- or -
2) Don't contact the server until I actually try to access one of its 
mailboxes and/or expand the UI's associated tree entry? (Which I don't do 
very often for this particular server.)

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