Hi Anton,
Thank you. I reviewed the template and see it uses the below; the macro "{%posttextplain%}" renders the html tags as it in in email. By changing the macro to {%StripTags(posttextplain)%} , i was able to remove the tags, but would want to render a "bold" text as bold without stripping. Have not found an equivalent to render the text with tags applied.
Forum: {%forumdisplayname%}
Subject: {%postsubject%}
Posted by: {%TrimSitePrefix(postusername)%}
Date and time: {%posttime%}
Text: {%posttextplain%}