diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 67b1151..7193129 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
         "ericmartel/codeception-email": "^1.0",
         "friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer": "^2.15.0"
     },
+    "suggest": {
+        "ext-iconv": "Will be used as a mime decoder (iconv_mime_decode)",
+        "ext-mbstring": "Will be used as a mime decoder if ext-iconv is not installed (mb_decode_mimeheader)"
+    },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {
             "Codeception\\Module\\": "src"
diff --git a/src/MailHog.php b/src/MailHog.php
index 76788be..b6e105d 100644
--- a/src/MailHog.php
+++ b/src/MailHog.php
@@ -459,8 +459,12 @@ protected function getDecodedEmailProperty($email, $property): string
             ) {
                 $property = quoted_printable_decode($property);
             }
-            if (stripos($property, '=?utf-8?Q?') !== false && extension_loaded('mbstring')) {
-                $property = mb_decode_mimeheader($property);
+            if (stripos($property, '=?utf-8?Q?') !== false) {
+                if (extension_loaded('iconv')) {
+                    $property = iconv_mime_decode($property);
+                } elseif (extension_loaded('mbstring')) {
+                    $property = mb_decode_mimeheader($property);
+                }
             }
         }