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docs/email: Clarify discussion Django's EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD.

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This fixes the second part of #6974 about EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD.
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@@ -110,9 +110,12 @@ aren't receiving emails from Zulip:
exceptions Zulip encounters. exceptions Zulip encounters.
* Zulip's email sending configuration is based on the standard Django * Zulip's email sending configuration is based on the standard Django
[SMTP backend](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/email/#smtp-backend) [SMTP backend](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/email/#smtp-backend)
configuration. The one thing we've changed from the defaults is configuration. So if you're having trouble getting your email
reading `EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD` from the `email_password` entry in the provider working, you may want to search for documentation related
Zulip secrets file, so that secrets don't live in the to using your email provider with Django. The one thing we've
`/etc/zulip/settings.py` file. So if you're having trouble getting changed from the defaults is reading the email password from the
your email provider working, you may want to search for `email_password` entry in the Zulip secrets file, as part of our
documentation related to using your email provider with Django. policy of not having any secret information in the
`/etc/zulip/settings.py` file. In other words, if Django
documentation references setting `EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD`, you should
instead set `email_password` in `/etc/zulip/zulip-secrets.conf`.