diff --git a/mail/fetchmail/Portfile b/mail/fetchmail/Portfile
index 36e99a2a2cef..03ff04cd9f58 100644
--- a/mail/fetchmail/Portfile
+++ b/mail/fetchmail/Portfile
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ subport fetchmail-devel {
     revision        1
 
     checksums       rmd160  fd6ec69e643c538c626243f1592121859c78f6da \
-                    sha256  25d8dcf6cbbccaf9f407cbcd85df7805b917a3ce9c5215011a719337a5bb86bc
+                    sha256  25d8dcf6cbbccaf9f407cbcd85df7805b917a3ce9c5215011a719337a5bb86bc \
+                    size    1251904
 
     conflicts       fetchmail
 }
@@ -53,17 +54,32 @@ master_sites        sourceforge:project/${name}/branch_${branch}
 
 use_xz              yes
 
-depends_lib         port:gettext \
-                    port:kerberos5
+set py_ver          3.12
+set py_ver_nodot    [string map {. {}} ${py_ver}]
 
-configure.args      --mandir=${prefix}/share/man \
+depends_build-append \
+                    port:gettext \
+                    port:python${py_ver_nodot}
+
+depends_lib-append  port:gettext-runtime \
+                    port:kerberos5 \
+                    port:libiconv
+
+configure.python    ${prefix}/bin/python${py_ver}
+
+configure.args-append \
+                    --mandir=${prefix}/share/man \
+                    --with-gssapi \
                     --with-libiconv-prefix=${prefix} \
-                    --without-ssl --with-kerberos5=${prefix} --with-gssapi
+                    --with-kerberos5=${prefix} \
+                    --without-ssl
 
 default_variants    +ssl
 
+build.env-append    PYTHON=${configure.python}
+
 post-destroot {
-    if { ! [variant_isset fetchmailconf] } {
+    if {![variant_isset fetchmailconf]} {
         system "find ${destroot} -type f -iname '*fetchmailconf*' -delete"
     }
 }