diff -Nur blog.bak/nucleus/libs/NOTIFICATION.php blog/nucleus/libs/NOTIFICATION.php
--- blog.bak/nucleus/libs/NOTIFICATION.php	2009-03-27 08:51:23.889510000 -0700
+++ blog/nucleus/libs/NOTIFICATION.php	2009-03-28 21:18:38.313504000 -0700
@@ -43,6 +43,24 @@
 	}
 
 	/**
+	  * Ensure the from/subject/to is correctly encoded
+	  */
+	function encodeBase64($string, $charset = 'UTF-8') {
+		$m=preg_match_all('/(\w*[\x80-\xFF]+\w*)/', $string, $matches);
+		if($m) return "=?" . $charset . "?B?" . @base64_encode($string) . "?=";
+		else return $string;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	  * for address in the format "name <email>", only encode name
+	  */
+	function encodeAddress($string, $charset = 'UTF-8') {
+		$m=preg_match_all('/(.*)( <.*?@.*?>)/', $string, $matches);
+		if($m) return $this->encodeBase64($matches[1][0], $charset) . $matches[2][0];
+		else return $string;
+	}
+
+	/**
 	  * Sends email messages to all the email addresses
 	  */
 	function notify($title, $message, $from) {
@@ -58,7 +76,7 @@
 			if ($member->isLoggedIn() && ($member->getEmail() == $address))
 				continue;
 
-			@mail($address, $title, $message , "From: ". $from . "\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8");
+			@mail($this->encodeAddress($address), $this->encodeBase64($title), $message , "From: ". $this->encodeAddress($from) . "\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8");
 		}
 	}
 }