diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/MessageHelper.java b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/MessageHelper.java
index 280cd37f6b..432ca31fdc 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/MessageHelper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/faircode/email/MessageHelper.java
@@ -854,7 +854,6 @@ public class MessageHelper {
         if (header == null)
             return null;
 
-        header = new String(header.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1));
         Address[] addresses = InternetAddress.parseHeader(header, false);
 
         for (Address address : addresses) {