diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status-rust.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status-rust.nix
index f6acf5698f4c..a1900deb2257 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status-rust.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/i3/status-rust.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-{ stdenv, rustPlatform, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig, dbus, libpulseaudio }:
+{ stdenv
+, rustPlatform
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pkgconfig
+, makeWrapper
+, dbus
+, libpulseaudio
+, notmuch
+, ethtool
+}:
 
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   pname = "i3status-rust";
@@ -13,9 +22,17 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   cargoSha256 = "1dcfclk8lbqvq2hywr80jm63p1i1kz3893zq99ipgryia46vd397";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ dbus libpulseaudio ];
+  buildInputs = [ dbus libpulseaudio notmuch ];
+
+  cargoBuildFlags = [
+    "--features=notmuch"
+  ];
+
+  postFixup = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/i3status-rs --prefix PATH : "${ethtool}/bin"
+  '';
 
   # Currently no tests are implemented, so we avoid building the package twice
   doCheck = false;