diff --git a/dev-libs/gmime/Manifest b/dev-libs/gmime/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ade2d99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/gmime/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+AUX gmime-2.2.23-sign-assembly.patch 1380 SHA256 086c23ebb3b7c5f8e1e2133ab41fea623947cbbc790af25efb8e3d2e64111a8f SHA512 b7a666efbdc665fa639238a71816032de5cbb450cdd393ffc07ca03a1f3c254271d07dbc2314cb733564455af9bed5e44af86e0e4ed631c545f37cbc25ab20af WHIRLPOOL b61ca9f342e22d8a05072a6807b1ae6fc57c9e6a11bcc20c03e8c952af43646fbbffaea07612c9338953ebb8a64793327336331b55c7b06a4b19eabf6c889206
+DIST gmime-2.2.27.tar.bz2 790878 SHA256 73b0ffb5c6cfb8614a5fb0d3a9fd75856d65905be39133baf1dd12efe51f24eb SHA512 bc648c219f17d89af150cf040c70553ae7cffce94710da0d6403fb4d35c8f2801ddfcee6a59d074dd379259cdc7d7375ea9a2bf888eb655278135b84cf4fc1e2 WHIRLPOOL 024deac8ed37173c1097591e12669d99b0541186e8141436868e58ec791eb923bc87371b7af37c8c873b258f67affa86fe781a0ac815c3c8d1cbd94d4457b68f
+DIST gmime-sharp.snk 596 SHA256 f71eb61399bb038acc847298b74eee6c03a8773309dc5c10929ee4aa0aeb3948 SHA512 aa5c9aa99e07008e1f6551b8dfca289bfd9eb8ace21cb605951adbde699579820851544f8c22c2ce7f478a8854645bebf746b0475322eaa24b74746bc207da0e WHIRLPOOL 5ae3ed48788e09763d5274c0909c42f750ee3fb84eee9166adafc016acc20dbed81e3b1066cc4eafffc1967034b197606764450495dcde89230d7453c2165680
+EBUILD gmime-2.2.27.ebuild 2219 SHA256 84590ce22015c12b5087ee5f7f27a45eb37492ad7eb1fad405cda6b895832d66 SHA512 67d83656cd2dc3733f0d090bb510bf6968b21268eeb81ca875f2efc204673930763541e122da0c2d0e8df2154ef9555ec0d5d6bfb0b94ea5eae5c3f995eacc62 WHIRLPOOL 7b5f05d7dbaaa215eb946421d53eced0bef9842dafe6be9ec623c93baa7347207e7bf70b60b79542e19a2468fa9c2c1465d2f3e4abfcad1fcf4061a04566a16c
diff --git a/dev-libs/gmime/files/gmime-2.2.23-sign-assembly.patch b/dev-libs/gmime/files/gmime-2.2.23-sign-assembly.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d68b50b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/gmime/files/gmime-2.2.23-sign-assembly.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+diff -NrU5 gmime-2.2.23.orig/mono/AssemblyInfo.cs.in gmime-2.2.23/mono/AssemblyInfo.cs.in
+--- gmime-2.2.23.orig/mono/AssemblyInfo.cs.in	2009-01-25 19:01:15.000000000 +0100
++++ gmime-2.2.23/mono/AssemblyInfo.cs.in	2009-01-25 19:02:08.000000000 +0100
+@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
+ using System.Reflection;
+ using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+ 
+ [assembly:AssemblyVersion("@API_VERSION@")]
+-[assembly:AssemblyDelaySign(true)]
+-[assembly:AssemblyKeyFile("@srcdir@/gmime-sharp.pub")]
+diff -NrU5 gmime-2.2.23.orig/mono/Makefile.am gmime-2.2.23/mono/Makefile.am
+--- gmime-2.2.23.orig/mono/Makefile.am	2009-01-25 19:01:35.000000000 +0100
++++ gmime-2.2.23/mono/Makefile.am	2009-01-25 18:57:11.000000000 +0100
+@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@
+ 	rm -f generated/* &&	\
+ 	$(GAPI_CODEGEN) --generate $(API) --outdir=generated --customdir=$(srcdir) --assembly-name=$(ASSEMBLY_NAME) 	\
+ 	&& touch generated-stamp
+ 
+ $(ASSEMBLY): $(build_sources) generated-stamp $(ASSEMBLY_NAME).pub
+-	$(CSC) --unsafe /out:$(ASSEMBLY) /target:library $(references) $(build_sources) generated/*.cs
++	$(CSC) --unsafe /out:$(ASSEMBLY) -keyfile:$(ASSEMBLY_NAME).snk /target:library $(references) $(build_sources) generated/*.cs
+ 
+ install-data-local:
+ 	@if test -n '$(TARGET)'; then									\
+ 	  if test -n '$(DESTDIR)'; then								\
+ 	    echo "$(GACUTIL) /i $(ASSEMBLY) /f /package $(PACKAGE_SHARP) /root $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib";		\
diff --git a/dev-libs/gmime/gmime-2.2.27.ebuild b/dev-libs/gmime/gmime-2.2.27.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b8d290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/gmime/gmime-2.2.27.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/gmime/gmime-2.2.27.ebuild,v 1.9 2011/10/05 16:53:02 xarthisius Exp $
+
+EAPI="4"
+GNOME_TARBALL_SUFFIX="bz2"
+GCONF_DEBUG="no"
+
+inherit gnome2 eutils mono libtool autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="Utilities for creating and parsing messages using MIME"
+HOMEPAGE="http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/"
+
+SRC_URI="${SRC_URI} http://dev.gentoo.org/~pacho/gnome/gmime-sharp.snk"
+
+SLOT="0"
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="doc mono"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2:2
+	sys-libs/zlib
+	mono? (
+		dev-lang/mono
+		>=dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-2.4.0:2 )"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-util/pkgconfig
+	dev-util/gtk-doc-am
+	doc? (
+		>=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.0
+		app-text/docbook-sgml-utils )
+	mono? ( dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp-gapi:2 )"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	DOCS="AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL NEWS PORTING README TODO doc/html/"
+	G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_enable mono)"
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/gmime-2.2.23-sign-assembly.patch"
+
+	cp "${DISTDIR}/gmime-sharp.snk" mono/ || die
+	if use doc ; then
+		#db2html should be docbook2html
+		sed -i -e 's:db2html:docbook2html -o gmime-tut:g' \
+			docs/tutorial/Makefile.am docs/tutorial/Makefile.in \
+			|| die "sed failed (1)"
+		sed -i -e 's:db2html:docbook2html:g' configure.in configure \
+			|| die "sed failed (2)"
+		# Fix doc targets (bug #97154)
+		sed -i -e 's!\<\(tmpl-build.stamp\): !\1 $(srcdir)/tmpl/*.sgml: !' \
+			gtk-doc.make docs/reference/Makefile.in || die "sed failed (3)"
+	fi
+
+	eautoreconf
+	elibtoolize
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	MONO_PATH="${S}" emake
+	# 'all' rule doesn't generate html files
+	use doc && cd docs/tutorial/ && emake html
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	if use doc ; then
+		# we don't use docinto/dodoc, because we don't want html doc gzipped
+		insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/tutorial
+		doins docs/tutorial/html/*
+	fi
+
+	# rename these two, so they don't conflict with app-arch/sharutils
+	# (bug #70392)	Ticho, 2004-11-10
+	mv "${ED}/usr/bin/uuencode" "${ED}/usr/bin/gmime-uuencode"
+	mv "${ED}/usr/bin/uudecode" "${ED}/usr/bin/gmime-uudecode"
+	mono_multilib_comply
+}