diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/neomutt/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/neomutt/default.nix
index dc473eaaadd7..b4d7bd046d2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/neomutt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/neomutt/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, gettext, makeWrapper, tcl, which, writeScript
 , ncurses, perl , cyrus_sasl, gss, gpgme, kerberos, libidn, libxml2, notmuch, openssl
-, lmdb, libxslt, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_42, mailcap, runtimeShell, sqlite
+, lmdb, libxslt, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_42, mailcap, runtimeShell, sqlite, zlib
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
-    docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_42 gettext libxml2 libxslt.bin makeWrapper tcl which
+    docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_42 gettext libxml2 libxslt.bin makeWrapper tcl which zlib
   ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--with-mailpath="
     # Look in $PATH at runtime, instead of hardcoding /usr/bin/sendmail
     "ac_cv_path_SENDMAIL=sendmail"
+    "--zlib"
   ];
 
   # Fix missing libidn in mutt;