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Gobbledegook email headers

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Why do some of my emails have headers like this:

?utf-8?b?TW9ydGdhZ2VzIFNldCBUbyBHZXQgQ2hlYXBlciB8IFdoZXJl4oCZcyBNeSBLYXVwdGhpbmcgQ2FzaD8=?=

which was on a Motley Fool one received today. I had similar on one of the MSE weekly emails recently too, and there have been others.

Interested to know if this is a general problem generated by the sender, or if my machine is scrambling it in some way. The email contents are perfectly normal, it's just the headers that are gibberish.

Edit: I have no idea why pasting that example caused the subsequent font to be so small - sorry.
:D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

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