diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/trojita/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/trojita/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 685d78b0f50b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/trojita/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-{
-  akonadi-contacts,
-  cmake,
-  fetchFromGitLab,
-  fetchsvn,
-  gnupg,
-  gpgme,
-  kcontacts,
-  kf5gpgmepp,
-  lib,
-  libsecret,
-  mimetic,
-  mkDerivation,
-  pkg-config,
-  qgpgme,
-  qtbase,
-  qtkeychain,
-  qttools,
-  qtwebkit,
-  withI18n ? false,
-}:
-
-let
-  l10n = fetchsvn {
-    url = "svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf5";
-    rev = "1566642";
-    sha256 = "0y45fjib153za085la3hqpryycx33dkj3cz8kwzn2w31kvldfl1q";
-  };
-in
-mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "trojita";
-  version = "unstable-2022-08-22";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitLab {
-    domain = "invent.kde.org";
-    owner = "pim";
-    repo = "trojita";
-    rev = "91087933c5e7a03a8097c0ffe5f7289abcfc123b";
-    sha256 = "sha256-15G9YjT3qBKbeOKfb/IgXOO+DaJaTULP9NJn/MFYZS8=";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    akonadi-contacts
-    gpgme
-    kcontacts
-    libsecret
-    mimetic
-    qgpgme
-    qtbase
-    qtkeychain
-    qtwebkit
-    mimetic
-    kf5gpgmepp
-  ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    cmake
-    pkg-config
-    qttools
-    gnupg
-  ];
-
-  postPatch =
-    "echo ${version} > src/trojita-version"
-    + lib.optionalString withI18n ''
-      mkdir -p po
-      for f in `find ${l10n} -name "trojita_common.po"`; do
-        cp $f po/trojita_common_$(echo $f | cut -d/ -f5).po
-      done
-    '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Qt IMAP e-mail client";
-    homepage = "http://trojita.flaska.net/";
-    license = with licenses; [
-      gpl2
-      gpl3
-    ];
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ehmry ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 5c27c1a617bb..6bf5cb4dfbc7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -2070,6 +2070,7 @@ mapAliases {
   transifex-client = transifex-cli; # Added 2023-12-29
   trfl = throw "trfl has been removed, because it has not received an update for 3 years and was broken"; # Added 2024-07-25
   trezor_agent = trezor-agent; # Added 2024-01-07
+  trojita = throw "'trojita' has been dropped as it depends on KDE Gear 5, and is unmaintained"; # Added 2025-08-20
   trust-dns = hickory-dns; # Added 2024-08-07
   ttyrec = throw "'ttyrec' has been renamed to/replaced by 'ovh-ttyrec'"; # Converted to throw 2024-10-17
   tuic = throw "`tuic` has been removed due to lack of upstream maintenance, consider using other tuic implementations"; # Added 2025-02-08
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4e1cd9c6dd66..314d778cb83a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13505,8 +13505,6 @@ with pkgs;
     wlroots = wlroots_0_19;
   };
 
-  trojita = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/networking/mailreaders/trojita { };
-
   tuxclocker = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/tuxclocker {
     tuxclocker-plugins = tuxclocker-plugins-with-unfree;
   };