diff --git a/gpgmymail b/gpgmymail
index f9b4308..92fded4 100755
--- a/gpgmymail
+++ b/gpgmymail
@@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ def encrypt(
         *,
         unconditionally_encrypt: bool = False,
         encoding: str = DEFAULT_ENCODING,
-        ignore_errors: bool = False,
-        decode_before_encrypting: bool = False
+        ignore_errors: bool = False
     ) -> str:
     """Encrypt given message
 
@@ -263,14 +262,13 @@ def encrypt(
     # make necessary changes to message
     # this function is quite clunky and seems to throw exceptions from time to
     # time; if we can't make the necessary changes we want to just continue
-    if decode_before_encrypting:
-        try:
-            message = decode_email(message)
-        except Exception as e:
-            if ignore_errors:
-                pass
-            else:
-                raise e
+    try:
+        message = decode_email(message)
+    except Exception as e:
+        if ignore_errors:
+            pass
+        else:
+            raise e
     
     gpg = gnupg.GPG()
     gpg.encoding = encoding
@@ -307,6 +305,10 @@ def encrypt(
         if key.lower() not in headers_not_to_override:
             encmsg[key] = value
 
+    # mark as confirming to pEp: https://blog.jak-linux.org/2019/06/13/encrypted-email-storage/#pretty-easy-privacy-pp
+    set_email_header(encmsg, 'Subject', PEP_SUBJECT)
+    set_email_header(encmsg, 'X-pEp-Version', '2.1')
+
     # we have encrypted the email, set our gpgmymail header appropriately
     set_email_header(encmsg, 'X-gpgmymail-Status', 'encrypted')
 
@@ -333,8 +335,6 @@ def main() -> None:
                         help="Encrypt mail unconditionally. By default, mail is not encrypted if it is already encrypted.")
     parser.add_argument('--ignore-errors', action="store_true",
                         help="Ignore errors at certain error-prone points of the script.")
-    parser.add_argument('--decode', action="store_true",
-                        "Attempt to decode quoted-printable and base64 parts to latin-1 before encrypting a message")
     parser.add_argument('recipient', nargs='*',
                         help="Key ID or email of keys to encrypt for")
     args = parser.parse_args()
@@ -348,8 +348,7 @@ def main() -> None:
             args.recipient,
             unconditionally_encrypt=args.unconditional,
             encoding=args.encoding,
-            ignore_errors=args.ignore_errors,
-            decode_before_encrypting=args.decode
+            ignore_errors=args.ignore_errors
         ))
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':