diff --git a/mail/nullmailer/hotfix-ranlib-libnullmailer.patch b/mail/nullmailer/hotfix-ranlib-libnullmailer.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..72b695d25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mail/nullmailer/hotfix-ranlib-libnullmailer.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../nullmailer/hotfix-ranlib-libnullmailer.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2008 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+on stage 1 one gets:
+x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++  -g -O2 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -W -Wall   -o smtp smtp.o protocol.o ../lib/cli++/libcli++.a ../lib/libnullmailer.a
+../lib/libnullmailer.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
+
+--- ./lib/Makefile.in.orig	2008-03-10 14:49:02.000000000 +0000
++++ ./lib/Makefile.in	2008-03-10 14:52:04.000000000 +0000
+@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@
+ 		libmisc.a \
+ 		fdbuf/libfdbuf.a \
+ 		mystring/libmystring.a
++	$(RANLIB) libnullmailer.a
+ 
+ defines.cc: Makefile.am make_defines.sh
+ 	@echo Creating defines.cc