diff --git a/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/EmailComponent.php b/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/EmailComponent.php
index 5b2dd1d9f..4bb1782d4 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/EmailComponent.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Controller/Component/EmailComponent.php
@@ -420,31 +420,6 @@ class EmailComponent extends Component {
 		return null;
 	}
 
-/**
- * Encode the specified string using the current charset
- *
- * @param string $subject String to encode
- * @return string Encoded string
- */
-	protected function _encode($subject) {
-		$subject = $this->_strip($subject);
-
-		$nl = "\r\n";
-		if ($this->delivery == 'mail') {
-			$nl = '';
-		}
-		$internalEncoding = function_exists('mb_internal_encoding');
-		if ($internalEncoding) {
-			$restore = mb_internal_encoding();
-			mb_internal_encoding($this->charset);
-		}
-		$return = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, $this->charset, 'B', $nl);
-		if ($internalEncoding) {
-			mb_internal_encoding($restore);
-		}
-		return $return;
-	}
-
 /**
  * Format addresses to be an array with email as key and alias as value
  *
@@ -455,7 +430,7 @@ class EmailComponent extends Component {
 		$formatted = array();
 		foreach ($addresses as $address) {
 			if (preg_match('/((.*))?\s?<(.+)>/', $address, $matches) && !empty($matches[2])) {
-				$formatted[$this->_strip($matches[3])] = $this->_encode($matches[2]);
+				$formatted[$this->_strip($matches[3])] = $matches[2];
 			} else {
 				$address = $this->_strip($address);
 				$formatted[$address] = $address;
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Controller/Component/EmailComponentTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Controller/Component/EmailComponentTest.php
index b1a272b82..2e1ac3bbb 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Controller/Component/EmailComponentTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Controller/Component/EmailComponentTest.php
@@ -879,4 +879,22 @@ HTMLBLOC;
 		$this->assertNotRegExp('/Message-ID:/', $result);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Make sure from/to are not double encoded when UTF-8 is present
+ */
+	public function testEncodingFrom() {
+		$this->Controller->EmailTest->to = 'Teßt <test@example.com>';
+		$this->Controller->EmailTest->from = 'Teßt <test@example.com>';
+		$this->Controller->EmailTest->subject = 'Cake Debug Test';
+		$this->Controller->EmailTest->replyTo = 'noreply@example.com';
+		$this->Controller->EmailTest->template = null;
+
+		$this->Controller->EmailTest->delivery = 'DebugComp';
+		$this->assertTrue($this->Controller->EmailTest->send('This is the body of the message'));
+		$result = DebugCompTransport::$lastEmail;
+
+		$this->assertContains('From: =?UTF-8?B?VGXDn3Qg?= <test@example.com>', $result);
+		$this->assertContains('To: =?UTF-8?B?VGXDn3Qg?= <test@example.com>', $result);
+	}
+
 }