removing <!-- [flags:ordAstLe] > from custom email script

[usa ims]

Hi,

My boss didn't like the subject line of the default email alerts and he asked me to change it.

I found a script online that does it -- so I modified the script and the subject line is doing what is expected but the body of the email is displaying some text that I would like not to be displayed.

How can I remove the " red [965282] red <!-- [flags:ordAstLe] >" or more importantly "<!-- [flags:ordAstLe] >"?

Here is the script: 

#!/bin/bash

SM="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
FROM="From: Xymon Server <xxxxxx at xxxxxx.com>"
TO="To:xxxxx at txxxxxx.com"

     if [ "$RECOVERED" = "1" ]; then
     RECOVERED="(Recovered)"
     else
     RECOVERED=""
     fi

SUBJECT="Subject: D0 BIG BROTHER ALERT - $BBSVCNAME test on $BBHOSTNAME"  


MSG="$FROM\n$TO\n$SUBJECT\n\n\n\n$BBALPHAMSG\n"


echo -e "$MSG" | $SM -t
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On a 'conn' test, it is displaying:

xxxxxxx.corp.local:conn red [965282] red <!-- [flags:ordAstLe] --> Wed Oct  1 10:46:24 2014 conn NOT ok 

Service conn on xxxxxxx.corp.local is not OK : Host does not respond to ping


System unreachable for 20 poll periods (5386 seconds)

&red 5.5.5.5 is unreachable

###################################################

Is there anyway to remove that? Thanks in advance.

usaims