diff --git a/srcpkgs/dovecot/template b/srcpkgs/dovecot/template
index 215762140d..085c448752 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dovecot/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dovecot/template
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 # revbump dovecot-plugin-pigeonhole when updating dovecot!
 pkgname=dovecot
 version=2.3.2.1
-revision=2
+revision=3
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --with-sql=plugin
  --disable-static --with-pam --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-lucene
  --with-sqlite --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/dovecot/ssl
  --with-gssapi --with-ldap=plugin --with-zlib --with-bzlib --with-lzma
  --with-lz4 --with-libcap --with-solr --with-docs --sbindir=/usr/bin"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl"
 makedepends="
  liblz4-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel liblzma-devel libressl-devel mit-krb5-devel
  libmysqlclient-devel postgresql-libs-devel sqlite-devel clucene-devel