Special characters added in offline approval email

Hi all,
We are on SRM 5.0 SP13 ,ECS
We are facing an issue with the outbound emails sent out from SRM system for offline approval for both shopping carts and PO.
In the main body of the  email,some some special characters like ^A are being added at the start of each line.
We have been observing this issue lately after the upgrade of our mail server.
Has anbody come across such an issue in SRM 5.0??Please advise /share your solution/provid some insights.
Thanks!

Take a look at the note and see if it applies to your case.
1019942     wrong encoding for HTML formatted emails

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