diff --git a/mail/mailman/Makefile b/mail/mailman/Makefile
index c79750166..1e85627f2 100644
--- a/mail/mailman/Makefile
+++ b/mail/mailman/Makefile
@@ -40,13 +40,15 @@ endef
 CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
 	--prefix="$(prefix)" \
 	--exec-prefix="$(prefix)" \
-	--with-python="/usr/bin/python" \
 	--with-username="root" \
 	--with-groupname="root" \
 	--with-mail-gid="nogroup" \
 	--with-cgi-gid="root" \
 	--without-permcheck \
 
+define Build/Compile
+endef
+
 define Package/mailman/install
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)$(prefix)
 	cd $(PKG_BUILD_DIR); $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(1) install
@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ if [ -z "$${IPKG_INSTROOT}" ]; then
   ./bin/mmsitepass mailman
   echo "NOTE: The default site password 'mailman' has been created."
  fi
+ # /etc/init.d/mailman enable
  if [ `ps | grep "mailman/bin/qrunner" | grep -cv grep` -gt 0 ]
  then
   $(prefix)/bin/mailmanctl -q restart
@@ -105,7 +108,6 @@ if [ -z "$${IPKG_INSTROOT}" ]; then
   echo "Don't forget to setup firewall for accessing this website!"
   echo "To add a mailing list go to http://$$hostname/mailman/create."
  fi
- # /etc/init.d/mailman enable
 fi
 endef
 
diff --git a/mail/mailman/patches/300-targetpython.patch b/mail/mailman/patches/300-targetpython.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1dd2859f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mail/mailman/patches/300-targetpython.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur mailman-2.1.18-1/configure mailman-2.1.18-1_patched/configure
+--- mailman-2.1.18-1/configure	2014-05-06 20:43:56.000000000 +0400
++++ mailman-2.1.18-1_patched/configure	2014-11-04 15:02:32.892666331 +0300
+@@ -3927,6 +3927,8 @@
+ $as_echo "$URLHOST" >&6; }
+ rm -f conftest.out conftest.py
+ 
++PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
++
+ # Checks for libraries.
+ 
+ for ac_func in strerror setregid syslog
diff --git a/mail/mailman/patches/400-modules.patch b/mail/mailman/patches/400-modules.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9fa72a26e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mail/mailman/patches/400-modules.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+diff -Naur mailman-2.1.18-1/Mailman/MailList.py mailman-2.1.18-1_patched/Mailman/MailList.py
+--- mailman-2.1.18-1/Mailman/MailList.py	2014-05-06 20:43:56.000000000 +0400
++++ mailman-2.1.18-1_patched/Mailman/MailList.py	2014-11-04 15:57:06.832636147 +0300
+@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
+ import shutil
+ import socket
+ import urllib
+-import cPickle
++import pickle as cPickle
+ 
+ from cStringIO import StringIO
+ from UserDict import UserDict
+diff -Naur mailman-2.1.18-1/misc/paths.py.in mailman-2.1.18-1_patched/misc/paths.py.in
+--- mailman-2.1.18-1/misc/paths.py.in	2014-05-06 20:43:56.000000000 +0400
++++ mailman-2.1.18-1_patched/misc/paths.py.in	2014-11-04 15:55:49.594941540 +0300
+@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@
+ # In a normal interactive Python environment, the japanese.pth and korean.pth
+ # files would be imported automatically.  But because we inhibit the importing
+ # of the site module, we need to be explicit about importing these codecs.
+-if not jaok:
+-    import japanese
++#if not jaok:
++#    import japanese
+ # As of KoreanCodecs 2.0.5, you had to do the second import to get the Korean
+ # codecs installed, however leave the first import in there in case an upgrade
+ # changes this.
+-if not kook:
+-    import korean
+-    import korean.aliases
++#if not kook:
++#    import korean
++#    import korean.aliases
+ # Arabic and Hebrew (RFC-1556) encoding aliases. (temporary solution)
+ import encodings.aliases
+ encodings.aliases.aliases.update({