Hi Lisa,
are you using email plugin or a notification node to send this email?
There are no restrictions on sending email through email plugin or notification node, you can send email to user who are not in group as well.
if the user email is outside your company domain, make sure email domain is not blocked by your IT team on the smtp server.
Hope this helps.
Regards
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Hammad Naeem
Precisely Software Inc.
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