Hi Andrew,
Yeah, this feature isn’t that good, in fact I’m not sure I see a purpose for it really.
If you switch to private, you literally get an email where you have no idea what it’s about, no topic title (a topic ID instead, not that that’s going to be any good to a forum member), nothing describing it in the body of the email - the topic title and then a link for example “someone has replied to “topic title” click here to check it out”.
I turned this private feature back off as it’s even worse than sending an email with all content included inside it.
Would be really nice to be able to edit the actual components of the emails that go out to select what information you do want to include but looks like that’s not an option.