diff --git a/mail/ricochet/Makefile b/mail/ricochet/Makefile
index ca065077e9b5..138fcea3fd2b 100644
--- a/mail/ricochet/Makefile
+++ b/mail/ricochet/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 PORTNAME=	ricochet
 PORTVERSION=	0.97
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	mail
 MASTER_SITES=	http://vipul.net/perl/sources/spamcontrol/ricochet/
 
diff --git a/mail/ricochet/files/patch-ricochet b/mail/ricochet/files/patch-ricochet
index 267113b8ac1a..41245c06cf01 100644
--- a/mail/ricochet/files/patch-ricochet
+++ b/mail/ricochet/files/patch-ricochet
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  sub initialize { 
      my $self = shift; 
 -    my $rc = "$ENV{RICOCHET}" || "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet"; $rc .= "/ricochetrc"; 
-+    my $rc = "$ENV{RICOCHET}" || -f "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet" ? "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet" : "%%PREFIX%%/share/ricochet";
++    my $rc = "$ENV{RICOCHET}" || -d "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet" ? "$ENV{HOME}/.ricochet" : "%%PREFIX%%/share/ricochet";
 +    $rc .= "/ricochetrc"; 
      Carp::croak "** Ricochet configuration file $rc doesn't exist. Aborting.\n" unless -e $rc; 
      open (RC, $rc);