diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime/iconv-detect.h b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime/iconv-detect.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..714cb5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime/iconv-detect.h
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+/* This is an auto-generated header, DO NOT EDIT! */
+
+#define ICONV_ISO_INT_FORMAT "iso-%u-%u"
+#define ICONV_ISO_STR_FORMAT "iso-%u-%s"
+#define ICONV_10646 "iso-10646"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime/nodolt.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime/nodolt.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f9bdd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime/nodolt.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ AC_EXEEXT
+ AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ dnl when using libtool 2.x create libtool early, because it's used in configure
+ m4_ifdef([LT_OUTPUT], [LT_OUTPUT])
+-DOLT
+ 
+ dnl Checks for header files.
+ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/mman.h)
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime_3.2.3.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime_3.2.3.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c6f0b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/gmime_3.2.3.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
+DESCRIPTION = "Runtime libraries for parsing and creating MIME mail"
+SECTION = "libs"
+DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 zlib"
+
+inherit gnome autotools gobject-introspection
+
+SRC_URI += "file://iconv-detect.h \
+            file://nodolt.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "69ae21a0b1df966a7d39a9431856ac81"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "6a0875eeb552ab447dd54853a68ced62217d863631048737dd97eaa2713e7311"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF_remove = "--disable-schemas-install"
+
+export ac_cv_have_iconv_detect_h="yes"
+do_configure_append = "cp ${WORKDIR}/iconv-detect.h ${S}"
+
+# we do not need GNOME 1 gnome-config support
+do_install_append () {
+    rm -f ${D}${libdir}/gmimeConf.sh
+}
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.24.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.24.0.bb
index beae281..7632fd2 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.24.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.24.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 
-DEPENDS = "pidgin intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
+DEPENDS = "pidgin gmime intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
 
 inherit pkgconfig
 inherit autotools
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "--enable-openssl=yes,--enable-openssl=no,openssl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[krb5] = "--with-krb5=yes,--with-krb5=no,krb5"
 #PACKAGECONFIG[voice_and_video] = "--with-vv=yes,--with-vv=no,libnice gstreamer"
-PACKAGECONFIG[telepathy] = "--enable-telepathy=yes,--enable-telepathy=no,telepathy-glib gmime"
+PACKAGECONFIG[telepathy] = "--enable-telepathy=yes,--enable-telepathy=no,telepathy-glib"
 #PACKAGECONFIG[gssapi_only] = "--enable-gssapi-only=yes,--enable-gssapi-only=no,krb5"
 PACKAGECONFIG[debug] = "--enable-debug=yes,--enable-debug=no,valgrind"