diff --git a/alerts.php b/alerts.php
index 56fd4ffdd7..6af7370b3d 100755
--- a/alerts.php
+++ b/alerts.php
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ function IssueAlert($alert) {
 		return true;
 	}
 	$default_tpl = "%title\r\nSeverity: %severity\r\n{if %state == 0}Time elapsed: %elapsed\r\n{/if}Timestamp: %timestamp\r\nUnique-ID: %uid\r\nRule: {if %name}%name{else}%rule{/if}\r\n{if %faults}Faults:\r\n{foreach %faults}  #%key: %value.string\r\n{/foreach}{/if}Alert sent to: {foreach %contacts}%value <%key> {/foreach}"; //FIXME: Put somewhere else?
+	if( $config['alert']['fixed-contacts'] == false ) {
+		$alert['details']['contacts'] = GetContacts($alert['details']['rule']);
+	}
 	$obj = DescribeAlert($alert);
 	if( is_array($obj) ) {
 		$tpl = dbFetchRow('SELECT template FROM alert_templates WHERE rule_id LIKE "%,'.$alert['rule_id'].',%"');
diff --git a/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md b/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md
index f27fce6c1c..59fb295f93 100644
--- a/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md
+++ b/doc/Extensions/Alerting.md
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ Alert sent to: {foreach %contacts}%value <%key> {/foreach}
 Transports are located within `$config['install_dir']/includes/alerts/transports.*.php` and defined as well as configured via `$config['alert']['transports']['Example'] = 'Some Options'`.  
 
 Contacts will be gathered automatically and passed to the configured transports.  
+By default the Contacts will be only gathered when the alert triggers and will ignore future changes in contacts for the incident. If you want contacts to be re-gathered before each dispatch, please set `$config['alert']['fixed-contacts'] = false;` in your config.php.
+
 The contacts will always include the `SysContact` defined in the Device's SNMP configuration and also every LibreNMS-User that has at least `read`-permissions on the entity that is to be alerted.  
 At the moment LibreNMS only supports Port or Device permissions.  
 You can exclude the `SysContact` by setting:
diff --git a/includes/defaults.inc.php b/includes/defaults.inc.php
index 9710868d7c..fc56cb2aa2 100644
--- a/includes/defaults.inc.php
+++ b/includes/defaults.inc.php
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ $config['alert'] = array(
 	'default_only' => false,              //Only issue to default
 	'default_mail' => '',                 //Default email
 	'tolerance-window' => 10,             //Allow +/-10s tolerance to delay values to counter cron-irregularities
+	'fixed-contacts' => true,             //If true any changes in user-permissions,user-mail,syscontact,default-mail will not be honoured until the next alert triggers.
 );
 
 //Legacy options