From 0e155d9d5598ea5fbef494ddc45465c71091f321 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evgeny Fadeev <evgeny.fadeev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:33:01 -0400
Subject: stripped leading empty lines in the email signature

---
 askbot/lamson_handlers.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/askbot/lamson_handlers.py b/askbot/lamson_handlers.py
index e7928d52..dd7af597 100644
--- a/askbot/lamson_handlers.py
+++ b/askbot/lamson_handlers.py
@@ -229,8 +229,9 @@ def VALIDATE_EMAIL(
             tail.insert(0, line)
 
         #strip off the leading quoted lines, there could be one or two
-        while tail[0].startswith('>'):
-            line.pop(0)
+        #also strip empty lines
+        while tail[0].startswith('>') or tail[0].strip() == '':
+            tail.pop(0)
 
         signature = '\n'.join(tail)
 
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