Rmail, IMAP and movemail.mailutils

[Paul Michael Reilly]

I suspect there is a sordid history here but Google is not revealing it. 
 I want to access my IMAP server to process my mail and according to 
the documentation for Emacs movemail, it only handles POP whereas Gnu 
Mailutils has a version of movemail that does handle IMAP.  Now why 
would we not want to provide IMAP access for Rmail out of the box?  I 
certainly do.  Is there some history here I should be aware of?  I'm 
inclined to figure out what is necessary to add to Emacs movemail so 
that it can fetch IMAP mail.  I do realize that adding IMAP support to 
Rmail is more complex than the initial fetch, but it certainly is a good 
place to start.  No?

-pmr