diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/rss2email/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/rss2email/default.nix
index 017f9c0c95a..49b0aed865f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/rss2email/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/rss2email/default.nix
@@ -14,12 +14,24 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
     sha256 = "02wj9zhmc2ym8ba1i0z9pm1c622z2fj7fxwagnxbvpr1402ahmr5";
   };
 
+  outputs = [ "out" "man" "doc" ];
+
   postInstall = ''
-    install -Dm 644 r2e.1 $out/share/man/man1/r2e.1
+    install -Dm 644 r2e.1 $man/share/man/man1/r2e.1
     # an alias for better finding the manpage
-    ln -s -T r2e.1 $out/share/man/man1/rss2email.1
+    ln -s -T r2e.1 $man/share/man/man1/rss2email.1
+
+    # copy documentation
+    mkdir -p $doc/share/doc/rss2email
+    cp AUTHORS COPYING CHANGELOG README $doc/share/doc/rss2email/
   '';
 
+  # The tests currently fail, see
+  # https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email/issues/14
+  # postCheck = ''
+  #   env PYTHONPATH=.:$PYTHONPATH python ./test/test.py
+  # '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A tool that converts RSS/Atom newsfeeds to email.";
     homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rss2email;