My problem is with Users getting blank emails whenever any of their posts are deleted. I hadn’t thought about the moderation aspect, thanks. With that in mind, I just set up a new unmoderated forum. I had to set it as ‘Private No Moderation with Post Restrictions’ in order to allow non-admin users to be able to post. I tried two different Users with two different Roles and they both got the annoying blank post deleted emails. In all cases the Forum Admin got a perfect email telling her that the posts had been deleted.
Re your scenarios—I got exactly the same results as you did (admin email - there is something to moderate, user email - your post was approved, admin email - a post was deleted), except my Users also got the blank email with no subject and no content. Further, when I had the Forum Admin delete a post that the very same Forum Admin had started, the Forum Admin received one nice email as the Admin and one blank one as the User.
When your Admin deletes a post, do they have a Delete Post text box that allows them to choose the reason for the post being deleted and allegedly pick a template for the email to be sent to the User? No matter what I choose (Post is Duplicate, Against Policy, Spam, etc), nothing ‘sticks’ and the User gets the blank email.
Jennifer