The sysadmins at work did some work on the machine that hosts my homedir, and after that movemail up and quit on me. After a day and a night of traipsing through man pages, O'Reilly books and websites tracking dowm imap arcana and toying with the idea of an entirely new email system, I found the problem.
It seems that there are two different versions of movemail: one in the GNU mailutils package and one in emacs' cvs sources. I was using the latter. When I rejiggered my PATH environment variable to point to an old movemail that shipped with Fedora Core 4 (that's what my work machine is running), all was well again. Back to work.
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