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Why do my email alerts have garbled headers?

Johnvey
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I am using Splunk 4 and the email alerts that are sent to me have a bunch on junk in the 'To' and 'From' lines, like:

=?utf-8?q?johnvey=40splunk=2Ecom?=@mail.splunk.com

What is it, and how do I fix it?

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Johnvey
Contributor

This is a bug with the 4.1 beta. Affected customers can wait for the next candidate or request a patch from support.

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Johnvey
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This is a bug with the 4.1 beta. Affected customers can wait for the next candidate or request a patch from support.

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