diff -dur cacti-plugin-thold-0.4.9.orig/thold/thold_functions.php cacti-plugin-thold-0.4.9/thold/thold_functions.php
--- cacti-plugin-thold-0.4.9.orig/thold/thold_functions.php	2011-11-12 19:29:49.000000000 +0100
+++ cacti-plugin-thold-0.4.9/thold/thold_functions.php	2012-12-10 08:37:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -1589,10 +1589,13 @@
 			/* re-alert? */
 			$ra = ($item['bl_fail_count'] > $bl_fail_trigger && ($item['bl_fail_count'] % ($item['repeat_alert'] == '' ? $realert : $item['repeat_alert'])) == 0);
 
-			if ($item['bl_fail_count'] == $bl_fail_trigger || $ra) {
+			$notify = ($item['bl_fail_count'] == $bl_fail_trigger || $ra);
+
+			$subject = ($notify ? "ALERT: " : "TRIGGER: ") . $item['name'] . ($thold_show_datasource ? " [$name]" : '') . ' ' . ($ra ? 'is still' : 'went') . ' ' . ($breach_up ? 'above' : 'below') . " calculated baseline threshold " . ($breach_up ? $item['thold_hi'] : $item['thold_low']) . " with $currentval";
+
+			if ($notify) {
 				thold_debug('Alerting is necessary');
 
-				$subject = "ALERT: " . $item['name'] . ($thold_show_datasource ? " [$name]" : '') . ' ' . ($ra ? 'is still' : 'went') . ' ' . ($breach_up ? 'above' : 'below') . " calculated baseline threshold " . ($breach_up ? $item['thold_hi'] : $item['thold_low']) . " with $currentval";
 
 				if ($logset == 1) {
 					logger($item['name'], $breach_up, ($breach_up ? $item['thold_hi'] : $item['thold_low']), $currentval, $item['bl_fail_trigger'], $item['bl_fail_count'], $url);