diff --git a/package/dovecot/dovecot.mk b/package/dovecot/dovecot.mk
index 3100bfbc93..8635ea5c4f 100644
--- a/package/dovecot/dovecot.mk
+++ b/package/dovecot/dovecot.mk
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ DOVECOT_SITE = https://dovecot.org/releases/$(DOVECOT_VERSION_MAJOR)
 DOVECOT_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 DOVECOT_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1, MIT, Public Domain, BSD-3-Clause, Unicode-DFS-2015
 DOVECOT_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LGPL COPYING.MIT
+DOVECOT_CPE_ID_VENDOR = dovecot
 DOVECOT_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-pkgconf \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV),libiconv) \