diff --git a/capplets/default-applications/ChangeLog b/capplets/default-applications/ChangeLog
index 8633b1d7d..d376fe19a 100644
--- a/capplets/default-applications/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/default-applications/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-04-13  Luca Cavalli  <loopback@slackit.org>
+
+	* gnome-default-applications.xml.in: add support for Sylpheed. Based
+	on a patch from Fryderyk Dziarmagowski <freetz@pld-linux.org>.
+	Closes bug #332659.
+
 2006-03-23  Luca Cavalli  <loopback@slackit.org>
 
 	* gnome-default-applications.xml.in: Fix Thunderbird command line
diff --git a/capplets/default-applications/gnome-default-applications.xml.in b/capplets/default-applications/gnome-default-applications.xml.in
index 5f80b2e20..07660e8dd 100644
--- a/capplets/default-applications/gnome-default-applications.xml.in
+++ b/capplets/default-applications/gnome-default-applications.xml.in
@@ -234,6 +234,13 @@
       <icon-name>sylpheed</icon-name>
       <run-in-terminal>false</run-in-terminal>
     </mail-reader>
+    <mail-reader>
+      <_name>Sylpheed</_name>
+      <executable>sylpheed</executable>
+      <command>sylpheed --compose %s</command>
+      <icon-name>sylpheed</icon-name>
+      <run-in-terminal>false</run-in-terminal>
+    </mail-reader>
   </mail-readers>
 
   <terminals>