diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/imapproxy/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/imapproxy/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7af7f73aad92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/imapproxy/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, openssl, ncurses}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "imapproxy-1.2.7";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-imap_proxy-1.2.7.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "0j5fq755sxiz338ia93jrkiy64crv30g37pir5pxfys57q7d92nx";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ openssl ncurses ];
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i -e 's/-o \(root\|bin\) -g \(sys\|bin\)//' Makefile.in
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://imapproxy.org/;
+    description = "It proxies IMAP transactions caching server connections";
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b236888398db..f052eb21bb9f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -847,6 +847,8 @@ let
 
   iftop = callPackage ../tools/networking/iftop { };
 
+  imapproxy = callPackage ../tools/networking/imapproxy { };
+
   imapsync = callPackage ../tools/networking/imapsync {
     inherit (perlPackages) MailIMAPClient;
   };