Is there any way to make sense of these E-Mail subjects?

[Chris Green]

Python <python at example.invalid> wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> >        Subject: [SPAM] =?UTF-8?B?8J+TtyBKb2huIEJheHRlci1C?=
> >       =?UTF-8?B?cm93biByZWNlbnRseSBw?=
> >       =?UTF-8?B?b3N0ZWQgYSBuZXcgcGhv?=
> >       =?UTF-8?B?dG8=?=
> > 
> > It looks like some sort of mis-encoding of UTF-8 strings, can anyone
> > suggest what might be going on and/or a way to get some sense out of
> > this?
> 
> It's not mis-encoding, it the standard way to embed non-ascii
> characters in the header. ?UTF-8?B? means base64 encoded utf-8,
> then the content is on multiple lines:
> 
> $ base64 -d < t
> 📷 John Baxter-Brown recently posted a new photo
> 
> email.header.decode_header should be able to handle it.
> 
Brilliant, thank you, just what I needed to know.

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Chris Green
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