diff --git a/helpdesk/tests/test_files/all-special-chars.eml b/helpdesk/tests/test_files/all-special-chars.eml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4d922482
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpdesk/tests/test_files/all-special-chars.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+To: helpdesk@auto-mat.cz
+From: Timothy Hobbs <timothy.hobbs@auto-mat.cz>
+Subject: =?UTF-8?B?VGVzdG92w6Fjw60gZW1haWw=?=
+Openpgp: preference=signencrypt
+Message-ID: <0fd7067e-2842-5b6c-3548-3cf7e6a1c9ea@auto-mat.cz>
+Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 23:40:04 +0100
+User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
+ Thunderbird/60.4.0
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+Content-Language: en-US
+
+íářčšáíéřášč
+
diff --git a/helpdesk/tests/test_get_email.py b/helpdesk/tests/test_get_email.py
index 7a4fe448..d923323c 100644
--- a/helpdesk/tests/test_get_email.py
+++ b/helpdesk/tests/test_get_email.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class GetEmailCommonTests(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(ticket.title, "Attachment without body")
         self.assertEqual(ticket.description, "")
 
-    def test_email_with_blank_body_and_attachment(self):
+    def test_email_with_quoted_printable_body(self):
         """
         Tests that emails with quoted-printable bodies work.
         """
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ class GetEmailCommonTests(TestCase):
         attachment = attachments[0]
         self.assertEqual(attachment.file.read().decode("utf-8"), '<div dir="ltr">Tohle je test českých písmen odeslaných z gmailu.</div>\n')
 
+    def test_email_with_8bit_encoding_and_utf_8(self):
+        """
+        Tests that emails with 8bit transfer encoding and utf-8 charset
+        https://github.com/django-helpdesk/django-helpdesk/issues/732
+        """
+        with open(os.path.join(THIS_DIR, "test_files/all-special-chars.eml")) as fd:
+            test_email = fd.read()
+        ticket = helpdesk.email.object_from_message(test_email, self.queue_public, self.logger)
+        self.assertEqual(ticket.title, "Testovácí email")
+        self.assertEqual(ticket.description, "íářčšáíéřášč")
+
 
 class GetEmailParametricTemplate(object):
     """TestCase that checks basic email functionality across methods and socks configs."""