[Xymon] Trouble With Alert Format

Hello fellow xymoners,

I have recently setup monitoring of the existence of files in a particular directory, and this seems to be working well. When I setup an alert for a "red" condition, I receive an email message with what appears to be some html tags within it, eg:

    &red <a href="/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=myserver.com&SECTION=file:/path/to/myfile">/path/to/myfile</a>
    File is a  - should be file

I have tried setting the alert "FORMAT" to TEXT, PLAIN and SMS, but this doesn't seem to have any effect. I have also tried sending the alert through the html_mail.pl extension scripts, and this doesn't seem to have any effect either. All I really want is a plain text message, which is easy to read. Does anyone know how I could clean this up?

Example Alert Config: HOST=myserver.com MAIL alerts at someone.who.cares.com REPEAT=240m COLOR=red FORMAT=TEXT

Regards, Jonathan