Corrupt cfmail file with 

Question

Over the weekend I had an email hang up in my \Mail\Spool\ directory.  ColdFusion would try to send the file but would just hang on it.  It would never move it to the \Mail\Undelivr\ directory.   In the Mail.log file it created a single entry that just displayed as "Error", with no other information.
In the meantime no other email was sent.  The spool directory grew as new email was being spooled but ColdFusion would never get past sending the corrput file.
I opened the file in a text editor and the file began with the following characters:   
The email file looked something like this:
server:  mail.myserver.com
from:  [email protected]
to:  [email protected]
subject:  Example Email
type:  text/plain; charset=UTF-8
bodypart-start:  text/plain; charset=us-ascii
body:  Just an example
bodypart-end:  text/plain; charset=us-ascii
This apparently was just a fluke because in the hundreds of email files I have looked at over the years this is the first time I have ever seen those characters displayed. I was able to get the email to send by deleting the characters and saving it back to the \Mail\Spool\ directory.
Searching the web reveals that those characters represent the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard. Specifically it is the hex bytes EF BB BF, which form the UTF-8 representation of the BOM, misinterpreted as ISO 8859/1 text instead of UTF-8.
What would cause CF to screw up createing an email file beginning with these characters?

Answer 1

What version of Premiere Pro? Include the minor version number (e.g., Premiere Pro CS5.5 with the 5.5.2 update).PPro CS5.0.3
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If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
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What were you doing when the problem occurred? Picking my nose and thinking why won't this project load, why do so many projects get corrupted, why isn't there a "fix corrupted project" recovery program included by adobe, and I wonder how can I fix it?
Has this ever worked before? No not when it isn't working
What other software are you running? Outlook, LANDesk, OfficeScan, that is about it.
Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed? no
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