[2.1.x] Fixed #29430 -- Clarified send_mail()'s fail_silently docs.

Backport of 085ebc5f1a0e96784516e551cb9225cc6836f1d0 from master

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/email.txt b/docs/topics/email.txt
index 48943e95cc..2ba1036ff6 100644
--- a/docs/topics/email.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/email.txt
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ are required.
 * ``recipient_list``: A list of strings, each an email address. Each
   member of ``recipient_list`` will see the other recipients in the "To:"
   field of the email message.
-* ``fail_silently``: A boolean. If it's ``False``, ``send_mail`` will raise
-  an :exc:`smtplib.SMTPException`. See the :mod:`smtplib` docs for a list of
-  possible exceptions, all of which are subclasses of
+* ``fail_silently``: A boolean. When it's ``False``, ``send_mail()`` will raise
+  an :exc:`smtplib.SMTPException` if an error occurs. See the :mod:`smtplib`
+  docs for a list of possible exceptions, all of which are subclasses of
   :exc:`~smtplib.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