diff --git a/lib/mail/message.rb b/lib/mail/message.rb
index 5c7d40abe..a7318f844 100644
--- a/lib/mail/message.rb
+++ b/lib/mail/message.rb
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ def headers(hash = {})
     #  message.errors.size #=> 1
     #  message.errors.first[0] #=> "Content-Transfer-Encoding"
     #  message.errors.first[1] #=> "weirdo"
-    #  message.errors.first[3] #=> <The original error message exception>
+    #  message.errors.first[2] #=> <The original error message exception>
     #
     # This is a good first defence on detecting spam by the way.  Some spammers send
     # invalid emails to try and get email parsers to give up parsing them.