diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile
index 527c9e9c6e4c..0e9f6fcf21a8 100644
--- a/net/Makefile
+++ b/net/Makefile
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-Socket6
     SUBDIR += p5-Socks
     SUBDIR += p5-Spread
+    SUBDIR += p5-Spread-Message
     SUBDIR += p5-Spread-Session
     SUBDIR += p5-URI
     SUBDIR += p5-URI-OpenURL
diff --git a/net/p5-Spread-Message/Makefile b/net/p5-Spread-Message/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..83c4a1fa3efe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-Spread-Message/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:	p5-Spread-Message
+# Date created:				12 Jun 2006
+# Whom:					Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	Spread-Message
+PORTVERSION=	0.21
+CATEGORIES=	net perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
+MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	../../authors/id/M/MA/MARKPF
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
+
+MAINTAINER=	aaron@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Provide messaging using the Spread toolkit
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/Spread.pm:${PORTSDIR}/net/p5-Spread
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${BUILD_DEPENDS}
+
+MAN3=	Spread::Message.3
+
+PERL_CONFIGURE=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
+
+.if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
+IGNORE=	requires at least Perl 5.6.  Please install lang/perl5.8 and try again
+.endif
+
+.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/net/p5-Spread-Message/distinfo b/net/p5-Spread-Message/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..afbc96daa040
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-Spread-Message/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 (Spread-Message-0.21.tar.gz) = 995863a6415049cfd7f7ece9c61b5574
+SHA256 (Spread-Message-0.21.tar.gz) = d2fb14d239db13592cf7332e47a47aacdde132a8f8ed9bfc2abe9ed137ab8911
+SIZE (Spread-Message-0.21.tar.gz) = 24307
diff --git a/net/p5-Spread-Message/pkg-descr b/net/p5-Spread-Message/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..475fbd7b1407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-Spread-Message/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+The Spread package provides a simple wrapper around the spread toolkit. We 
+try to provide a much higher level wrapper. By providing:
+
+    - Simple methods to send serialised Perl structures between programs
+    - Callback registration
+    - Extensible callbacks for command driven programs
+    - Lots of accesor functions
+    - Handling of incoming messages is supported via callbacks or
+    via direct polling for input. Its your choice :-)
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spread-Message
+Author: Mark Pfeiffer
diff --git a/net/p5-Spread-Message/pkg-plist b/net/p5-Spread-Message/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1f602fb00d83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-Spread-Message/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+%%SITE_PERL%%/Spread/Message.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Spread/Message/.packlist
+@dirrm %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Spread/Message
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Spread
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/Spread