Download to email in interactive reports returns same sender as recipient

Hello everyone
I just upgraded to Apex 4 and is very happy with it, and I love the feature to download and send by email option in interactive reports, which makes life a little bit easier. However, when I send the mail, I get the same sender e-mail, as the recipient I entered.
So when the mail with report arrives it says
from: [email protected]
to: [email protected]
Instead of
from: [email protected]
to: [email protected]
This is no dealbreaker, but it can confuse the customer that requested the report and think it might be something fishy with the attachment, thinking it's something bad like a virus.
Is there any way to change this? Cannot find anything in the settings to change this.
Sincerely
Johnny
Edited by: Johnny_Johnny on Aug 4, 2010 2:02 AM
Spelling error in recipient :)

Getting the same problem. Anyone found a solution or is this a bug

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