diff --git a/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.hash b/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.hash
index b67867a43c..65a424b068 100644
--- a/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.hash
+++ b/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
-md5    813ae849683367bb75e6be89e4e8cc46 MailTools-2.14.tar.gz
-sha256 4b7c7ef674b2ef75ea793f053cd067c6a4b33e58e3adf08a89c8ea4c56b3dff8 MailTools-2.14.tar.gz
+md5    972468ab5207b90398d77bed4ffc361d MailTools-2.18.tar.gz
+sha256 dfee9e770257371112f20d978e637759e81bc4f19e97b083585c71ecab37b527 MailTools-2.18.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.mk b/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.mk
index d3c049d597..1c41831ce5 100644
--- a/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.mk
+++ b/package/perl-mailtools/perl-mailtools.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PERL_MAILTOOLS_VERSION = 2.14
+PERL_MAILTOOLS_VERSION = 2.18
 PERL_MAILTOOLS_SOURCE = MailTools-$(PERL_MAILTOOLS_VERSION).tar.gz
 PERL_MAILTOOLS_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV
 PERL_MAILTOOLS_DEPENDENCIES = perl-timedate