email-headers

is there any Python module which helps to decode the various forms of encoded mail headers, mainly Subject, to simple - say - UTF-8 strings? Here are example Subject headers from mail files that I have: Subject: [ 201105311136 ]=?UTF-8?B?IMKnIDE2NSBBYnM=?=. 1 AO; Subject: [ 201105161048 ] GewSt:=?UTF-8?B?IFdlZ2ZhbGwgZGVyIFZvcmzDpHVmaWdrZWl0?= Subject: [ 201105191633 ] =?UTF-8?B?IERyZWltb25hdHNmcmlzdCBmw7xyIFZlcnBmbGVndW5nc21laHJhdWZ3ZW5kdW4=?= =?UTF-8?B?Z2VuIGVpbmVzIFNlZW1hbm5z?= text - encoded sting - text text - encoded string text - encoded string - encoded string Encodig could also be

My PHP script sends email to users and when the email arrives to their mailboxes, the subject line ( $subject ) has characters like a^£ added to the end of my subject text. This is obviously and encoding problem. The email message content itself is fine, just the subject line is broken. I have searched all over but can’t find how to encode my subject properly . This is my header. Notice that I’m using Content-Type with charset=utf-8 and Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit . //set all necessary headers $headers = "From: $sender_name<$from>\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: $sender_name<$from>\n"; $headers