Hm, not really sure what is a "bespoke" email alerts but you can actually just modify the email template file and remove the contents if you do not want to have the contents included on the e-mail template files. Take a look at the e-mails under /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/emails/

P/S: You can also now edit e-mail templates from the back end under E-mails > E-mail editor

yes but in general we would want to include the contents of the post in the email. for certain private groups we wouldn't want the contents sent in the email. it would mean having different email templates for different group categories. is that possible?

You need to add some php checking in your template file to achieve this.

Dear Sir,

can you provide the name of template file for customization to achieve the above task.

Hey Joshua,

I have a question, may i know which kind of email you referring?

Because based on what i test on my locally, when the user create a new open/closed group in Easysocial page, it will not notify to site member, unless admin restricted the user create group do not publish on the site immediately, so system will notify to moderator or admin have a new group submitted, if that new group get approved, system will notify back to this group owner.

Perhaps you can share with us which kind of email you referring then we can try and see whether we provide you some suggestion regarding this.

Dear Sir,

i would like to use private groups as a place where we can post public/anon URLs for others to gain access to online docs in Office 365. This would work fine except the URL is sent in the email alert, which is the thing we are specifically trying to avoid. is there a way to use bespoke email alerts for a certain category of group so that the person is alerted to an update without the actual update contents being in the email?

Currently we do not have this feature 'bespoke email alerts' as you mentioned at above.

When someone post something into private group, the system will notify to group member regarding this.

And the email template file is located at this php file -> JoomlaFolder/media/com_easysocial/apps/group/story/themes/default/emails/new.post.php