Currently mailutils movemail works with gmail imap using this: movemail 'imaps://carlosjosepita%40gmail.com:XXXX@imap.gmail.com/INBOX' RMAIL but not this: movemail --tls 'imap://carlosjosepita%40gmail.com:X XXX@imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX' RMAIL I wouldn't be difficult to support imaps in rmail, as it's just forwarding the request to movemail, which already supports it. This way it would be possible to use gmail imap in rmail.