Garbled characters being generated by evolution mail when composing mail in plain text with Exchange 2007 and evolution-mapi plugin

[Iwan Mota]

Binary package hint: evolution

When trying to compose messages every once in a while (I would say 1 in every 20 messages) it will send an email with completely garbled text, oriental symbols and ASCII fill-in boxes for unknown character codes. I can't quite figure out what triggers it but I've composed quick messages with 3 characters and long emails (2 pages) with attachments that have gone out as this garbled text (see attached screenshot).

For the time being I will resort to composing in HTML to see if it makes a difference but I much rather use the plain text option for its cleanliness and small footprint.

I also looked at the message source and the garbled text is there too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 25 16:34:52 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[Dion C (dzignsnz)]

Occurs randomly (every 10-15 or so emails) for me too - whether they are New, Replying or Forwarding.

Ubuntu 10.10
evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.3
evolution-mapi 0.30.3-1ubuntu1