Hmph, I see that upstream has wrongly (and summarily) closed this bug
report. :(
The bug is not about the *presence* of the User-Agent header, which is
indeed optional. (The 'Add "User-Agent" header' checkbox is found in
the "More Headers" tab when posting an article.)
This bug is about the mailto: string being malformed when the User-Agent
header (or Mime-Version, or Content-Type) is split over several lines.
As I pointed out in my second message, PostUI::maybe_mail_message() is
to blame. It starts by converting the list of headers into a blob of
text, and then proceeds to prune *lines* corresponding to certain
headers, matching ":" as a delimiter on every line (and skipping the
next character, assumed to be a space).
This means that this:
User-Agent: Pan/0.137 (The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour;
GIT 9a6aef1 git://git.gnome.org/pan2)
results in this junk being included in the final headers:
GIT 9a6aef1 git: /git.gnome.org/pan2)
which is rightfully rejected by mutt.
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