diff --git a/ActiveSync/SOGoActiveSyncDispatcher.m b/ActiveSync/SOGoActiveSyncDispatcher.m
index 633782927..1d8ef577d 100644
--- a/ActiveSync/SOGoActiveSyncDispatcher.m
+++ b/ActiveSync/SOGoActiveSyncDispatcher.m
@@ -3255,7 +3255,7 @@ SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
   [theResponse setHeader: @"Sync,SendMail,SmartForward,SmartReply,GetAttachment,GetHierarchy,CreateCollection,DeleteCollection,MoveCollection,FolderSync,FolderCreate,FolderDelete,FolderUpdate,MoveItems,GetItemEstimate,MeetingResponse,Search,Settings,Ping,ItemOperations,ResolveRecipients,ValidateCert"  forKey: @"MS-ASProtocolCommands"];
   [theResponse setHeader: @"2.5,12.0,12.1,14.0,14.1"  forKey: @"MS-ASProtocolVersions"];
 
-  if (debugOn && [[theResponse content] length])
+  if (debugOn && [[theResponse headerForKey: @"Content-Type"] isEqualToString:@"application/vnd.ms-sync.wbxml"] && [[theResponse content] length])
     [self logWithFormat: @"EAS - response for device %@: %@", [context objectForKey: @"DeviceId"], [[[NSString alloc] initWithData: [[theResponse content] wbxml2xml] encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease]];
 
   RELEASE(context);
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 40a1d4aab..a1c168f51 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Enhancements
 Bug fixes
  - now always generate invitation updates when using EAS
  - rewrote the string sanitization to be 32-bit Unicode safe
+ - do not try to decode non-wbxml responses for debug output (#3444)
 
 2.3.6 (2016-01-18)
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