# Mark message as “private”

## post by Brandon_Finton on Jan 6

It would be great if you can mark a message as “private” so that the message is not displayed in the email notification. The use-case is that we do not want sensitive/private information can be sent through Assembly without it being displayed in the email. This could be an alternative to secure email systems that are prone to phishing attacks. Ideally, a flag in the API would allow a new message to be marked as private from there as well.

Within Assembly, the message would be cleartext/readable. This would just affect the email notification.

## post by Veronique_Cadet on Jan 7

Hi [@Brandon_Finton](https://community.assembly.com/u/brandon_finton)! Thank you for reaching out!

You can disable message previews in email notifications from the Messages app settings. To do this, go to _**App Setup > Messages > Edit**,_ then toggle off the setting labeled _**Email notifications contain message contents**_. This will remove message previews from your email notifications.

Please let me know if you have any other questions. Happy to help!

## post by Brandon_Finton on Mar 5

Thanks for the reply. I did see that feature, I’ guess I should have clarified the ability to send it on a per message basis.

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