diff --git a/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Manifest b/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Manifest
index 73fa76b1c75d1..c61c9337831a6 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Manifest
+++ b/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST Net-SMTP-SSL-1.03.tar.gz 2271 BLAKE2B 8f131527139a96155bb33c4b1c0530ba88955f08d4a7d1a2b8afec6119300b102c5ba0f4ac3757c216491b5aea9a3311a0b501a5a4dbb2d453ddf3abf3a18719 SHA512 71e766274745893cb6eddc91a4b24d7b538051974a2cd93d4abd8447daec72907b482edb25e628cfa480c99af935568c4765e85ddfc951e0ec9b2de25c366bc8
+DIST Net-SMTP-SSL-1.04.tar.gz 2457 BLAKE2B a55dea686b5dd6b0ecdf025a40a71f8a87fc8fdb8cab49b6e310c1bca8a513945ca33914d762174a907ec5f146765f7aea0f70f59be4e9fee88051d2bf9c8ba5 SHA512 dfbf59e5d895add19f5684c999c941ab56a58be39492a02e5a9bdac47039bf388279eda734c6b0422d228ac14efed899b3572561e6a34cfd9582423252efb509
diff --git a/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.40.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.40.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5c0979c1aeae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.40.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=RJBS
+DIST_VERSION=1.04
+inherit perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="(Deprecated) SSL support for Net::SMTP"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	virtual/perl-libnet
+	dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+	test? ( >=virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.470.0 )
+"
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "This package is deprecated by upstream as equivalent support for SSL and"
+	elog "STARTTLS is available with Net::SMTP 2.35, found in:"
+	elog "  >=virtual/perl-libnet-1.28 ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.20.0 )"
+	elog "Subsequently, this package is only available for compatibility reasons, and"
+	elog "should be avoided in new code."
+}