[1.1.X] Fixed #5605: only lowercase the domain portion of an email address in `UserManager.create_user`.

Thanks, Leo.

Backport of [12641] from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@12642 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt
index dd1bffd66d..3a0cd5de2e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ The auth system consists of:
       user.
     * Messages: A simple way to queue messages for given users.
 
+.. deprecated:: 1.2
+   The Messages component of the auth system will be removed in Django 1.4.
+
 Installation
 ============
 
@@ -261,10 +264,13 @@ Manager functions
     .. method:: models.UserManager.create_user(username, email, password=None)
 
         Creates, saves and returns a :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User`.
-        The :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.username`,
-        :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.email` and
-        :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.password` are set as given, and
-        the :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` gets ``is_active=True``.
+        
+        The :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.username` and
+        :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.password` are set as given. The
+        domain portion of :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.email` is
+        automatically convered to lowercase, and the returned
+        :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User` object will have
+        :attr:`~models.User.is_active` set to ``True``.
 
         If no password is provided,
         :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.set_unusable_password()` will