diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/alpine/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/alpine/default.nix
index f2769946f70..129595efaaa 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/alpine/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/alpine/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, tcl, openssl, pam, pkgconfig, gettext, kerberos
 , openldap
 }:
+# NOTE: Please check if any changes here are applicable to ../realpine/ as well
 let
   s = 
   rec {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/realpine/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/realpine/default.nix
index 2247398ef78..94653868575 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/realpine/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/realpine/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, tcl, openssl, pam, pkgconfig, gettext, kerberos
 , openldap
 }:
+# NOTE: Please check if any changes here are applicable to ../alpine/ as well
 let
   s = 
   rec {
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   configureFlags = [
     "--with-ssl-include-dir=${openssl.dev}/include/openssl"
     "--with-tcl-lib=${tcl.libPrefix}"
+    "--with-passfile=.pine-passfile"
     ];
   preConfigure = ''
     export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -lgcc_s"