diff --git a/offlineimap/emailutil.py b/offlineimap/emailutil.py
deleted file mode 100644
index ea035f6..0000000
--- a/offlineimap/emailutil.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# Some useful functions to extract data out of emails
-# Copyright (C) 2002-2015 John Goerzen & contributors
-#
-#    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-#    (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#    GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
-
-import email
-from email.parser import Parser as MailParser
-
-
-def get_message_date(content, header='Date'):
-    """Parses mail and returns resulting timestamp.
-
-    :param content: Mail content
-    :param header: the header to extract date from;
-    :returns: timestamp or `None` in the case of failure.
-    """
-
-    message = MailParser().parsestr(content, True)
-    dateheader = message.get(header)
-    # parsedate_tz returns a 10-tuple that can be passed to mktime_tz
-    # Will be None if missing or not in a valid format.  Note that
-    # indexes 6, 7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable.
-    datetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(dateheader)
-    if datetuple is None:
-        return None
-    return email.utils.mktime_tz(datetuple)
diff --git a/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py b/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
index 49d4c1b..e81f73b 100644
--- a/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
+++ b/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import binascii
 import re
 import time
 from sys import exc_info
-from offlineimap import imaputil, imaplibutil, emailutil, OfflineImapError
+from offlineimap import imaputil, imaplibutil, OfflineImapError
 from offlineimap import globals
 from imaplib2 import MonthNames
 from .Base import BaseFolder
diff --git a/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py b/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
index ee79408..abc0436 100644
--- a/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
+++ b/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import os
 from sys import exc_info
 from threading import Lock
 from hashlib import md5
-from offlineimap import OfflineImapError, emailutil
+from offlineimap import OfflineImapError
 from .Base import BaseFolder
 
 # Find the UID in a message filename