Commit 75032550 authored by Timo Graham's avatar Timo Graham
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Fixed #14783 - Links + style improvements to docs/topics/email.txt. Thanks adamv for the patch. 

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docs/topics/email.txt

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@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ set, are used to authenticate to the SMTP server, and the 
send_mail()

===========



The simplest way to send e-mail is using the function

``django.core.mail.send_mail()``. Here's its definition:



.. function:: send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently=False, auth_user=None, auth_password=None, connection=None)



The simplest way to send e-mail is using

``django.core.mail.send_mail()``.



The ``subject``, ``message``, ``from_email`` and ``recipient_list`` parameters

are required.
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ are required. 
      possible exceptions, all of which are subclasses of ``SMTPException``.

    * ``auth_user``: The optional username to use to authenticate to the SMTP

      server. If this isn't provided, Django will use the value of the

      ``EMAIL_HOST_USER`` setting.

      :setting:`EMAIL_HOST_USER` setting.

    * ``auth_password``: The optional password to use to authenticate to the

      SMTP server. If this isn't provided, Django will use the value of the

      ``EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD`` setting.

      :setting:`EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD` setting.

    * ``connection``: The optional e-mail backend to use to send the mail.

      If unspecified, an instance of the default backend will be used.

      See the documentation on :ref:`E-mail backends <topic-email-backends>`
@@ -72,11 +72,10 @@ are required. 
send_mass_mail()

================



``django.core.mail.send_mass_mail()`` is intended to handle mass e-mailing.

Here's the definition:



.. function:: send_mass_mail(datatuple, fail_silently=False, auth_user=None, auth_password=None, connection=None)



``django.core.mail.send_mass_mail()`` is intended to handle mass e-mailing.



``datatuple`` is a tuple in which each element is in this format::



    (subject, message, from_email, recipient_list)
@@ -110,11 +109,11 @@ a single connection for all of its messages. This makes 
mail_admins()

=============



``django.core.mail.mail_admins()`` is a shortcut for sending an e-mail to the

site admins, as defined in the :setting:`ADMINS` setting. Here's the definition:



.. function:: mail_admins(subject, message, fail_silently=False, connection=None)



``django.core.mail.mail_admins()`` is a shortcut for sending an e-mail to the

site admins, as defined in the :setting:`ADMINS` setting.



``mail_admins()`` prefixes the subject with the value of the

:setting:`EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX` setting, which is ``"[Django] "`` by default.
@@ -123,14 +122,14 @@ The "From:" header of the e-mail will be the value of the 


This method exists for convenience and readability.



mail_managers() function

========================

mail_managers()

===============



.. function:: mail_managers(subject, message, fail_silently=False, connection=None)



``django.core.mail.mail_managers()`` is just like ``mail_admins()``, except it

sends an e-mail to the site managers, as defined in the :setting:`MANAGERS`

setting. Here's the definition:



    .. function:: mail_managers(subject, message, fail_silently=False, connection=None)

setting.



Examples

========