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diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
index f4dfcfcf647..4e2d827fc29 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
@@ -1085,9 +1085,10 @@ Return non-nil if and only if some part of the header is encoded."
(cons selected mm-coding-system-priorities)
mm-coding-system-priorities))
(tick (buffer-chars-modified-tick))
- ;; rms: this proved necessary, but I don't recall why.
- ;; Can anyone determine why, and state it here?
- (rfc2047-encode-encoded-words t))
+ ;; Many mailers, including Gnus, passes a message of which
+ ;; the header is already encoded, so this is necessary to
+ ;; prevent it from being encoded again.
+ (rfc2047-encode-encoded-words nil))
(rfc2047-encode-message-header)
(= tick (buffer-chars-modified-tick)))))