In our case it was solved by uninstalling McAfee GTI Proxy Agent 2.0.0.705 (patch 10 did not help)
We don't use GTI Proxy but we have been testing Patch 10. It still hangs but unchecking "scan email body" seems to make it almost unnoticeable.
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