Sending $name$ in email notification

[pcookhayboo]

I'm sending $phrase$ in an email notification but they don't make it through because Splunk assumes they are variables. Is there a way to send these without Splunk recognizing them as a variable? 

Thanks

[dtburrows3]

This seemed to do what you are asking about if I understood you question correctly.

| sendemail to="<email>" message="this is a test message: testing token $$token$$"