diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.imap_email_content.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.imap_email_content.markdown
index cb639b436cf..35f9d2d694a 100644
--- a/source/_components/sensor.imap_email_content.markdown
+++ b/source/_components/sensor.imap_email_content.markdown
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Configuration variables:
 - **username** (*Required*): Username for the IMAP server.
 - **password** (*Required*): Password for the IMAP server.
 - **senders** (*Required*): A list of sender email addresses that are allowed to report state via email. Only emails received from these addresses will be processed.
-- **value_template** (*Optional*): If specified this template will be used to render the state of sensor. If a template is not supplied the raw message body will be used for the sensor value. The following attributes will be supplied to the template:
+- **value_template** (*Optional*): If specified this template will be used to render the state of the sensor. If a template is not supplied the message subject will be used for the sensor value. The following attributes will be supplied to the template:
 
    * **from**: The from address of the email
    * **body**: The body of the email