diff --git a/pkgs/shells/ipython/default.nix b/pkgs/shells/ipython/default.nix
index 92920818db1b..2c029b764b04 100644
--- a/pkgs/shells/ipython/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/shells/ipython/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage {
   name = "ipython-0.10.1";
+  namePrefix = "";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/0.10.1/ipython-0.10.1.tar.gz";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail/default.nix
index 4e10a2b3be1e..77bc9a2b9dfe 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/getmail/default.nix
@@ -1,48 +1,23 @@
-x@{builderDefsPackage
-  , python, makeWrapper
-  , ...}:
-builderDefsPackage
-(a :  
-let 
-  helperArgNames = ["stdenv" "fetchurl" "builderDefsPackage"] ++ 
-    [];
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, pythonPackages }:
 
-  buildInputs = map (n: builtins.getAttr n x)
-    (builtins.attrNames (builtins.removeAttrs x helperArgNames));
-  sourceInfo = rec {
-    baseName="getmail";
-    version="4.20.0";
-    name="${baseName}-${version}";
-    url="http://pyropus.ca/software/${baseName}/old-versions/${name}.tar.gz";
-    hash="17cpyra61virk1d223w8pdwhv2qzhbwdbnrr1ab1znf4cv9m3knn";
-  };
-in
-rec {
-  src = a.fetchurl {
-    url = sourceInfo.url;
-    sha256 = sourceInfo.hash;
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "getmail-4.20.0";
+  namePrefix = "";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "17cpyra61virk1d223w8pdwhv2qzhbwdbnrr1ab1znf4cv9m3knn";
   };
 
-  inherit (sourceInfo) name version;
-  inherit buildInputs;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pythonPackages.ssl ];
 
-  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
-  phaseNames = ["installPythonPackage" "patchShebangs" "wrapBinContentsPython"];
-  patchShebangs = (a.doPatchShebangs "$out/bin");
-      
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  installCommand = "python setup.py install --prefix=\"\$prefix\"";
+  
   meta = {
-    description = "A program for retrieval of mail";
-    maintainers = with a.lib.maintainers;
-    [
-      raskin
-    ];
-    platforms = with a.lib.platforms;
-      linux;
+    description = "A program for retrieving mail";
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
   };
-  passthru = {
-    updateInfo = {
-      downloadPage = "http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/";
-    };
-  };
-}) x
-
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 63cfe630d082..ced195f24e07 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -663,9 +663,7 @@ let
 
   gengetopt = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/gengetopt { };
 
-  getmail = callPackage ../tools/networking/getmail {
-    python = pythonFull;
-  };
+  getmail = callPackage ../tools/networking/getmail { };
 
   getopt = callPackage ../tools/misc/getopt { };