Does forum email notification work?
Nope. Known bug. Specifically, in the “Post New Topic for Forum” page, there is a function: “Check here to be notified by email whenever someone replies to your topic.” It sounds like a neat idea, but it doesn’t work. Never has, since the beginning of the forum, and has been mentioned many times, so may well never be fixed. This may have something to do with the fact that our editor names aren’t actually email addresses, but in any case it doesn’t work. Such is life.