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This is about one line of code to add - can you have it so the text of a Private Message is included in the email sent to someone telling them that they just got a Private Message?

It is not quite that simple. We dont want to have it turned on by default for two reasons. Firstly we get a lot of traffic from people checking their PMs, and they almost always stay around to read and comment more which helps us out a lot. Secondly, we send emails through google and they obviously parse, track and log everything that is sent into their giant database which means privacy issues if 'private messages' suddenly become 'private (and google) messages'.

So basically this means that I need to add an option to the database to turn it into a toggle (patch the db, update all related db scripts and code), then have to implement the PM text insertion which needs to be parsed and sent through which might involve some API modifications (not a big deal, but time consuming). None of this is too demanding but is boring and I have a lot of higher priority things on my plate at the moment. There is a small chance it is already implemented but I have not looked in the code to check - try enabling 'Include the message contents within the notification email' in your profile as that applies to email messages about threads, I cant remember if it applies to PMs as well but I dont think it does. I'll stick it on the todo list but dont expect to see it for a while I am afraid (unless more people really want to see it as well).