send-mail docs out of date

[Carl Karsten <carl@…>]

help( send_mail )

Help on function send_mail in module django.core.mail:
    NOTE: This method is deprecated. It exists for backwards compatibility.
    New code should use the EmailMessage class directly.

This should be stated in
​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/email/#send-mail

[Carl Karsten <carl@…>]

same page:

​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/email/#the-emailmessage-and-smtpconnection-classes

.send() doesn't have it's interface documented.

def send(self, fail_silently=False):

from IRC jodal: CarlFK: yes, looks like the docs are lacking compared to the source.

Guessing the whole thing should be reviewed.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

The first one is borderline. There's a difference between deprecated for internal Django use and deprecated as part of the external API (which is what is documented in the text). Anybody reading the docstring is quite free not to use send_mail(), but I'm not sure it's worth asking everybody to port away from it in public code yet.

For the second one, we take patches.

[James Bennett]

(In [6790]) Fixed #5870: documented the "fail_silently" argument to EmailMessage.send().