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4086	Redundant code in django.core.mail.send_mail()	Ilya Semenov <semenov@…>	Adrian Holovaty	"See below, I commented the code which is just redundant and can be safely removed (auth_user/auth_password will anyway be fetched from settings later inside send_mass_mail)

{{{
def send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently=False, auth_user=None, auth_password=None):
    """"""
    Easy wrapper for sending a single message to a recipient list. All members
    of the recipient list will see the other recipients in the 'To' field.

    If auth_user is None, the EMAIL_HOST_USER setting is used.
    If auth_password is None, the EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD setting is used.
    """"""
#    if auth_user is None:
#        auth_user = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER
#    if auth_password is None:
#        auth_password = settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
    return send_mass_mail([[subject, message, from_email, recipient_list]], fail_silently, auth_user, auth_password)

def send_mass_mail(datatuple, fail_silently=False, auth_user=None, auth_password=None):
    """"""
    Given a datatuple of (subject, message, from_email, recipient_list), sends
    each message to each recipient list. Returns the number of e-mails sent.

    If from_email is None, the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL setting is used.
    If auth_user and auth_password are set, they're used to log in.
    If auth_user is None, the EMAIL_HOST_USER setting is used.
    If auth_password is None, the EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD setting is used.
    """"""
    if auth_user is None:
        auth_user = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER
    if auth_password is None:
        auth_password = settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD

    # ...skipped the rest
}}}"		closed	Core (Other)	dev		fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0