diff --git a/perl-Mail-MboxParser-0.55-pod-encoding.patch b/perl-Mail-MboxParser-0.55-pod-encoding.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d6f2ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-Mail-MboxParser-0.55-pod-encoding.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Description: add =encoding to POD, required by perl 5.17.x
+Origin: vendor
+Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2013-06-02
+
+--- a/MboxParser/Mail.pm
++++ b/MboxParser/Mail.pm
+@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
+ 
+ # ----------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
++=encoding latin1
++
+ =head1 NAME
+ 
+ Mail::MboxParser::Mail - Provide mail-objects and methods upon
diff --git a/perl-Mail-MboxParser.spec b/perl-Mail-MboxParser.spec
index ffc3ac6..90198ff 100644
--- a/perl-Mail-MboxParser.spec
+++ b/perl-Mail-MboxParser.spec
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-MboxParser/
 Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/V/VP/VPARSEVAL/Mail-MboxParser-%{version}.tar.gz
 # Bug #715505, submitted to upstream
 Patch0:         %{name}-0.55-Fix-garbled-attachment-name-RT-66576.patch
+# Define POD encoding, CPAN RT#85805
+Patch1:         %{name}-0.55-pod-encoding.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
 BuildRequires:  perl(MIME::Tools) >= 5
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ from MIME::Tools on the appropriate return values.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n Mail-MboxParser-%{version}
 %patch0 -p1 -b .attachment_name
+%patch1 -p1
 
 %build
 %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@ make test
 %changelog
 * Sat Jul 27 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 0.55-11
 - Perl 5.18 rebuild
+- Define POD encoding (CPAN RT#85805)
 
 * Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.55-10
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild