From b1629ac77aae85bac95b7b315e82010c6da67bb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will <wkfarrell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:05:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow sending direct messages with slack module

---
 notification/slack.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/notification/slack.py b/notification/slack.py
index 5577228978b..b0dc9489182 100644
--- a/notification/slack.py
+++ b/notification/slack.py
@@ -111,7 +111,10 @@ def build_payload_for_slack(module, text, channel, username, icon_url, icon_emoj
     payload = dict(text=text)
 
     if channel is not None:
-        payload['channel'] = channel if (channel[0] == '#') else '#'+channel
+        if (channel[0] == '#') or (channel[0] == '@')
+            payload['channel'] = channel
+        else 
+            payload['channel'] = '#'+channel
     if username is not None:
         payload['username'] = username
     if icon_emoji is not None: