Hi @John, thanks for the explanation. I actually joined the Ghost Forum to clarify whether precisely this functionality exists (team member roles with only the Publish permissions, without the Email permissions). It’s good to hear that this is the default behaviour; I think it would be good for Ghost to retain this granularity even after the features are revisited.
For me, the best way to set permissions is a mix-and-match checklist and not a tiered set of roles with fixed permissions that can’t be partially granted or revoked. That way, edge cases like this can be handled case by case independent of what the default settings are.
Context: this is roughly my use case, with the additional requirement of being able to highlight and promote certain posts (differentiating them by post type or tag; sending them out as emails): Blog with open user registration (like in a forum) - #4 by DonaldH