Fixed #22407 -- Added AdminEmailHandler.send_mail().

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index fec2e2b4bc..729c19f3c2 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -271,6 +271,13 @@ Internationalization
   reusable apps. It also allows overriding those custom formats in your main
   Django project.
 
+Logging
+^^^^^^^
+
+* The :class:`django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler` class now has a
+  :meth:`~django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler.send_mail` method to make it more
+  subclass friendly.
+
 Management Commands
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/logging.txt b/docs/topics/logging.txt
index e1056e6e96..f44383598f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/logging.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/logging.txt
@@ -563,8 +563,15 @@ Python logging module.
     By default, an instance of the email backend specified in
     :setting:`EMAIL_BACKEND` will be used.
 
-.. _Sentry: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sentry
+    .. method:: send_mail(subject, message, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        .. versionadded:: 1.8
 
+        Sends emails to admin users. To customize this behavior, you can
+        subclass the :class:`~django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler` class and
+        override this method.
+
+.. _Sentry: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sentry
 
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