diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/2.nix
similarity index 82%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/2.nix
index a01f3890453..5477a20d203 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/2.nix
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  meta = {
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime/;
     description = "A C/C++ library for creating, editing and parsing MIME messages and structures";
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.chaoflow ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+    license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ chaoflow ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/3.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/3.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..319db5b3092
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gmime/3.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, glib, zlib, gpgme, libidn, gobjectIntrospection }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "gmime-3.0.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/gmime/3.0/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "001y93b8mq9alzkvli6vfh3pzdcn5c5iy206ml23lzhhhvm5k162";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig gobjectIntrospection ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ glib zlib gpgme libidn ];
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-introspection=yes" ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime/;
+    description = "A C/C++ library for creating, editing and parsing MIME messages and structures";
+    license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ chaoflow ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 162fb993290..5b3ea1e1625 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8187,7 +8187,9 @@ with pkgs;
 
   glui = callPackage ../development/libraries/glui {};
 
-  gmime = callPackage ../development/libraries/gmime { };
+  gmime2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/gmime/2.nix { };
+  gmime3 = callPackage ../development/libraries/gmime/3.nix { };
+  gmime = gmime2;
 
   gmm = callPackage ../development/libraries/gmm { };