diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/offlineimap/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/offlineimap/default.nix
index 790212ec6890..d585be26e26d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/offlineimap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/offlineimap/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pythonPackages, }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pythonPackages,
+  asciidoc, libxml2, libxslt, docbook_xml_xslt }:
 
 pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   version = "7.0.13";
@@ -12,10 +13,22 @@ pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     sha256 = "0108xmp9df6cb1nzw3ym59mir3phgfdgp5d43n44ymsk2cc39xcc";
   };
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Skip xmllint to stop failures due to no network access
+    sed -i docs/Makefile -e "s|a2x -v -d |a2x -L -v -d |"
+  '';
+
   doCheck = false;
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ asciidoc libxml2 libxslt docbook_xml_xslt ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pythonPackages.six ];
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    make -C docs man
+    install -D -m 644 docs/offlineimap.1 ''${!outputMan}/share/man/man1/offlineimap.1
+    install -D -m 644 docs/offlineimapui.7 ''${!outputMan}/share/man/man7/offlineimapui.7
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     description = "Synchronize emails between two repositories, so that you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers";
     homepage = "http://offlineimap.org";