diff --git a/pkgs/servers/mail/spamassassin/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/mail/spamassassin/default.nix
index 996db226e0d1..fd8acd7d9a6c 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/mail/spamassassin/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/mail/spamassassin/default.nix
@@ -9,14 +9,7 @@ perlPackages.buildPerlPackage rec {
     hash = "sha256-5aoXBQowvHK6qGr9xgSMrepNHsLsxh14dxegWbgxnog=";
   };
 
-  # ExtUtil::MakeMaker is bundled with Perl, but the bundled version
-  # causes build errors for aarch64-darwin, so we override it with the
-  # latest version.  We can drop the dependency to go back to the
-  # bundled version when the version that comes with Perl is ≥7.57_02.
-  #
-  # Check the version bundled with Perl like this:
-  #   perl -e 'use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw($VERSION); print "$VERSION\n"'
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper perlPackages.ExtUtilsMakeMaker ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
   buildInputs = (with perlPackages; [
     HTMLParser NetCIDRLite NetDNS NetAddrIP DBFile HTTPDate MailDKIM LWP
     LWPProtocolHttps IOSocketSSL DBI EncodeDetect IPCountry NetIdent