Messages in Mail are gibberish (Mail 2.1, 10.4.7–inbound from Lotus 6.5.1)

All other messages come thru fine but I'm having issues getting messages from clients using Lotus Notes 6.5.1
We're running 10.4.7's Mail 2.1 and our email server is Communigate Pro.
This isn't a font issue as the text actually has a repeatable pattern to it as opposed to being total gibberish- we've already run font cache cleaner too just to be sure, and we've tried it on a new account on a fresh installed machine as well just to be sure.
When using web-mail however, the messages are fine, and when using Thunderbird the messages are also fine.
Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas?
  Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Matthew,
I don't correspond with anyone using Lotus. Are you using a POP account, or IMAP account with this server?
I am not very expectant of this helping, but open one of these messages, and then click on Message in the Menubar, and in its pull-down place the cursor on Text Encodings, and try some choices, other than Automatic. Test first with Unicode at the bottom of the list, and then with Western (Mac Mail). Let us know if this alters anything.
Next, after opening such a message, click on View, place the cursor on Message, and choose Raw Source -- is the text of the message now readable?
Ernie
Ernie

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