diff --git a/root/usr/share/qpsmtpd/plugins/logging/log2sql b/root/usr/share/qpsmtpd/plugins/logging/log2sql
index 5ab9f10..a9daf54 100644
--- a/root/usr/share/qpsmtpd/plugins/logging/log2sql
+++ b/root/usr/share/qpsmtpd/plugins/logging/log2sql
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #####################################################
 
 use DBI;
+use Encode qw(decode);
 use strict;
 
 #plugin level variables are here since version 0.02
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ sub data_post_handler{
     #'touch' this message :-))
     $header->add("X-Sql-Log-ID",$mail_id);
 
-    my $subject = scalar $header->get("Subject");
+    my $subject = decode('MIME-Header', scalar $header->get("Subject"));
     chomp($subject);
     # Only keep the first 255 chars to be sure it can be inserted in the table
     $subject= substr $subject, 0, 254 if (length($subject) > 254);