Email from PHP has broken Subject header encoding

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Update   For a more practical and up-to-date answer, have a look at Palec’s answer.

The specified character encoding in Content-Type does only describe the character encoding of the message body but not the header. You need to use the encoded-word syntax with either the quoted-printable encoding or the Base64 encoding:

encoded-word = "=?" charset "?" encoding "?" encoded-text "?="

You can use imap_8bit for the quoted-printable encoding and base64_encode for the Base64 encoding:

"Subject: =?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode($subject)."?="
"Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?".imap_8bit($subject)."?="

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