if email sender in utf8 decode in python

To decode the sender field of an email which is in UTF-8 encoding, you can use the email.header module. Here's an example:

main.py
import email
from email.header import decode_header

# assume that the sender of email is stored in a variable called `sender_header`
sender = decode_header(sender_header)

# the `decode_header()` function returns a list of tuples
# containing the decoded string and its encoding
decoded_sender = sender[0][0].decode(sender[0][1])

# `decoded_sender` now contains the sender name in Unicode format
# that can be printed or processed as needed
print(decoded_sender)
465 chars
14 lines

The above code should work for most cases, but keep in mind that some email clients may use different character encodings or formats for the sender field.

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