Public bug reported:

Ubuntu Release: 11.04
Claws-Mail version: 3.7.8-1ubuntu4

Expected:
Email message sent to my mailbox with base64 encoding displayed as legible 
ASCII.  Specifically: "I would have called, but I lost your number when I 
switched phones."

Observed:
Email message with base64 encoding displayed as illegible ASCII noise. 
Specifically: 
"V¦]=çt’v÷VÆB†fR6ÆÆVBÂ'WB’Æ÷7B–÷W"çVÖ&W"v†Vâ’7v—F6†VB†öæW2â"

Steps to reproduce:
 - Ask a friend using a smartphone/ cel-network palmtop computer (ie. RIM 
Blackberry) to send you an email.
 - Some sites using MS Outlook + MS Exchange will also use 
Content-Transfer-Encoding base64, esp. sites that automatically attach vcards 
to outgoing mail.
 - Use Claws-Mail to check message that arrives.

Further information:
Developers claim a similar problem with uudecoding on systems using unsigned 
*char has been fixed upstream in version 3.7.9 (see 
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2331 ).  
Unconfirmed if this solves the problem described in this report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: claws-mail 3.7.8-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 21:03:07 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/claws-mail
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: claws-mail
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (142 days ago)

** Affects: claws-mail (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty

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