I'm using the Mail::IMAPClient module to fetch emails from my inbox. It works well, but after getting a good way through writing a wrapper for it, I discovered that it doesn't seem to handle UTF-8 encoded email headers that look something like this:

=?UTF-8?B?VHJ1ZUJsdWU=?= <jetblueairways@email.jetblue.com>

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This example is a "From" header.

Maybe it's because the module didn't know about such things in 2003. At any rate, I tried the Encode::Simple module like this to try to clean things up: 

      $sender =~ s/^=\?utf-8//i;
      $sender =~ s/\?=//i;
      use Encode::Simple qw (decode_utf8);
      $sender = decode_utf8($sender);

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My approach did not work, however. The string was unchanged. Further confusing me is that some headers look more like url encoding than utf8 encoding: 

=?utf-8?Q?rePurpose=20Global?= <hello@repurpose.global>

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So how do I properly handle these encoded headers?

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